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Updated: May 19, 2025
Has he escaped, and is he safely hid? STAUFFACHER. Your son-in-law conveyed him o'er the lake, And he lies hidden in my house at Steinen. He brought the tidings with him of a thing That has been done at Sarnen, worse than all, A thing to make the very heart run blood! Say on. What is it?
The answer pleased Gessler, who replied, "Thou art right," and, planning future vengeance, he passed on with his escort. The wife of Stauffacher, who had been standing near the new building, but concealed from Gessler and his men, heard the conversation, and reported it to her husband.
So sped I on from house to house, secure In the guest's sacred privilege and when I reached at last the valley of my home, Where dwell my kinsmen, scattered far and near And when I found my father stripped and blind, Upon the stranger's straw, fed by the alms Of charity STAUFFACHER. Great heaven! MELCHTHAL. Yet wept I not!
STAUFFACHER. The Landenberg, to punish some offence, Committed by the old man's son, it seems, Had given command to take the youth's best pair Of oxen from his plough: on which the lad Struck down the messenger and took to flight. FURST. But the old father tell me, what of him?
Discord will come, and the fierce clang of arms, To scare this valley's long unbroken peace, If we, a feeble shepherd race, shall dare Him to the fight that lords it o'er the world. GERTRUDE. You, too, are men; can wield a battle-axe As well as they. God ne'er deserts the brave. STAUFFACHER. Oh wife! a horrid, ruthless fiend is war, That strikes at once the shepherd and his flock.
His sleep is very calm, And on his features plays a placid smile. FURST. Who's there? Tell's wife, your daughter; she insists That she must speak with you, and see her boy. FURST. I who need comfort can I comfort her? Does every sorrow centre on my head? Where is my child? Unhand me! I must see him. STAUFFACHER. Be calm! Reflect you're in the house of death! My Walter! Oh, he yet is mine!
In the low valleys, too, the Alzeller Will gain confederates and rouse the country. MELCHTHAL. But how shall we communicate, and not Awaken the suspicion of the tyrants? STAUFFACHER. Might we not meet at Brunnen or at Treib, Hard by the spot where merchant-vessels land? FURST. We must not go so openly to work. Hear my opinion.
STAUFFACHER. Even to the emperor we refused obedience, When he gave judgment in the church's favor; For when the Abbey of Einsiedlen claimed The Alp our fathers and ourselves had grazed, And showed an ancient charter, which bestowed The land on them as being ownerless For our existence there had been concealed What was our answer?
STAUFFACHER. The king was riding down from Stein to Baden, Upon his way to join the court at Rheinfeld, With him a train of high-born gentlemen, And the young princes, John and Leopold. And when they reached the ferry of the Reuss, The assassins forced their way into the boat, To separate the emperor from his suite.
Stauffacher, the same morning, at the head of the men of Schwytz, destroyed the fortress of Schwanan, while Tell and the men of Uri took possession of Altorf. On the following Sunday the deputies of Uri, Schwytz, and Unterwalden met, and renewed that fraternal league which has endured to this day.
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