I would try to translate it, but certain stanzas are totally lost on me. I guess my German is rusty. If you are German, Ethelred, why don't you do it, your English is surely better than my German...
Thank you Raoul for your efforts.
It's difficult to translate the Lime Tree Poem, because it's written in dense, old German language like in the times of poets like Friedrich Schiller. Also partly it's mystical and so every syllable counts. I'll search for a translation...
The Lime Tree Poem matches extremely well with visions from many other well known (Austrian-) German catholic visionaries, like the Bavarian catholic Alois Irlmaier (1894 - 1959).
I've studied Irlmaier fairly well because he's probably one of the most closely examined visionaries of the modern times, and there's solid evidence and witnesses for his texts. Also the interpretations of his visions are well-engineered by now. He virtually did foresee countless of events or things which then occurred later in his life, which gives his visions an impressive underlining.
Irlmaier's most famous and terrificly detailed vision however is World War III (started with a Russian & Chinese attack on Europe and USA) ended some months later by the Three Dark Days and a big Cross of Our Lord in the sky, according to Irlmaier. He also saw that in that time
much more people would die than in World War I and II together.
Anyway, I find the Lime Tree Poem to be highly compatible with Irlmaier. I say this because it underlines the potential correctness of the Lime Tree Poem.
Well, there's nothing suspicious about this poem. There's evidence that it dates back to 1850 so it was there decades before Irlmaier (and any World War). Could Irlmaier have used the poem as base for his visions? Hardly, because his visions are so much more detailed, so it's clear the Poem is not the source of what Irlmaier foresaw.
Why am I boring you readers with Irlmaier? Because I think he's the most important and most detailed foreseer in the German-speaking area of the recent past, and indeed most older German-speaking traditional catholics from Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany's southern part know about him, including SSPX priests.
So in my next posting I'd like to pick up your paragraph from the Lime Tree Poem, and then my favourite one about the 21st Council please. :-)
P.S.
Sorry, Ethelred, the Great Monarch is French! But he will have some German blood, I think.
I think it's well possible that there's a great King coming in France, too! Indeed I hope so. I'm not so fond with the French visionaries however, but the German-speaking ones because for me as an Austrian they're in my mother-language.