The famous Staubbach Falls in Lauterbrunnen. Anyone who has ever wanted to meet one of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "muses", is in the right place in the Lauterbrunnen Valley. The Prince of Poetry was inspired by the imposing Staubbach Falls for his work "Song of the Spirits Over the Waters".
SONG OF THE SPIRITS OVER THE WATERS.
The soul of man is like to water;
From Heaven it cometh,
To Heaven it riseth,
And then returneth to earth,
For ever alternating.
Then foameth brightly,
In cloud-waves rolling,
O'er polished rocks.
Then tranquil flowing,
It wandereth, hiding,
Soft murmuring to depths below it.
Over scrags from the steep projecting
Falls it all roaring, foaming, step-like,
Far downward.
Then, level flowing.
Creeps to the meadow away:
And in the glassy sea
Gaze all the planets at their fair faces.
Wind is to wavelet tenderest lover:
Wind from the deep tears foam-crested billows.
Soul of man mortal, how art thou like water!
Fate of man mortal, how art thou like wind!
@30pics4jackiesdiamond ;-) Well Heidi is a fictional story, and so everyone will have a different picture in his/her heart/mind. But Heidi used to live in a totally different region,... and this is more like a house of richer people, and not an alm hut.
