Crossword-Solution: BREGENZ 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

VERSE: A LEGEND OF BREGENZ Girt round with rugged mountains The fair Lake Constance lies; In her blue heart reflected Shine back the starry skies; And, watching each white cloudlet Float silently and slow, You think a piece of Heaven Lies on our earth below! Midnight is there: and Silence, Enthroned in Heaven, looks down Upon her own calm mirror, Upon a sleeping town: For Bregenz, that quaint city Upon the Tyrol shore, Has stood above Lake Constance, A thousand years and more.

She served kind, gentle masters, Nor asked for rest or change; Her friends seemed no more new ones, Their speech seemed no more strange; And when she led her cattle To pasture every day, She ceased to look and wonder On which side Bregenz lay.

She spoke no more of Bregenz, With longing and with tears: Her Tyrol home seemed faded In a deep mist of years; She heeded not the rumours Of Austrian war and strife; Each day she rose contented, To the calm toils of life.

The elder of the village Rose up, his glass in hand, And cried, "We drink the downfall "Of an accursed land! "The night is growing darker, "Ere one more day is flown, "Bregenz, our foemen's stronghold, "Bregenz shall be our own!" The women shrank in terror, (Yet Pride, too, had her part,) But one poor Tyrol maiden Felt death within her heart.

How gallantly, how nobly, He struggles through the foam, And see--in the far distance, Shine out the lights of home! Up the steep banks he bears her, And now, they rush again Towards the heights of Bregenz, That tower above the plain.