Lorelei of the Golf Links – Golf Poetry

Lorelei of the Golf Links – Golf Poetry

THE LORELEI OF THE GOLF LINKS 

A Presence hovering o'er the place, 
Dim as a soft, alluring vision ; 

A laughing, tempting, maddening face, 
Unheeded the scarce veiled derision. 

A witch, weaving a fateful spell. 
As any pot of midnight brewing, 

Accomplishing a purpose fell 
With neither toads nor black cat mewing. 

No cabalistic 
Chanting mystic, 
No midnight riding 
Broom bestriding. 
No grim oblation. 
No incantation. 

No magic spells, no charm at all — 
Only a driver and a ball. 

Rose Champion de Crespigny. 

Lorelei is the name of a legendary German maiden who threw herself into the Rhine over a cheating lover. She was thus transformed into a siren, luring river men to their deaths onto the rocks.

The Lorelei also is a rock formation on the River Rhine, which produces (at least at one point) murmuring sound due to the currents and a waterfall. In one story, Lorelei throws herself from the rocks when she imagines she sees her faithless lover in the waters below.

This Lorelei of this golf poem this represents the siren call of the game.