WHY so shy of death, sweet infant? Death 's but one long, lásting húsh-ó, Ánd the gráve a deep, deep crádle Húng with black cloth and white linen. "I'm not tired yet of my córals, Cándy, cakes, and milk and honey; in the gráve Mammá won't pét me, Nór Papá bring mẻ new play-things." Joyous strípling, whý so shún death? "In the grave 's one lóng vacátion, Mán of rípe years, why so dread death? Ín the gráve there 's nó more trouble, Death keeps watch and léts not enter Pain or loss or fear or sorrow. "In the grave there is no trouble, Death keeps wátch and léts not enter Feéble, tóttering, weáry old man, "Gládly would I Deáth's kind hánd take, Did no nightmares its sleep trouble." Démons, nightmares haúnt not that bed, Close thine eyes now, ánd all 's over. Walking from SUHL, in the THURINGIAN FOREST, to OHRDRUFF; Oct. 4, 1855. ACÚTE, obsérvant, witty and profound, Goethe, the worldly wise, dwells in my brain; Walking from LUDWIGSBURG to BEILSTEIN (WÜRTTEMBERG); Sept. 2, 1855. "TÉLL me, Quintus," once said Virgil, "For the compliment I thánk thee, "Thine Enéis is a great work, "Wider than of Róman Eagle Viewed with wónder bý unbórn tribes "With the future," ánswered Virgil, OHRDRUFF, near GOTHA; Oct. 4, 1855. Ánd my whole béing, bursting into tears, Ánswers: "She wás" good God! and is't she was? SHE never in her whole life wrote one stánza, GOTHA, Oct. 12, 1855. THEY say I'm of a Propaganda school And would have áll men measure by my rule, Ánd they say trué, perhaps; but then the rule, I'd have them measure by, is: THERE'S NO RULE. WÜRZBURG (BAVARIA), Sept. 29, 1855. INTO two classes áll men Í divide, The oppressed on this, the oppressors on that, side; Let them change námes and places as they will, Oppressors and oppréssed I find them still. Walking from SUHL to OBERNHOF in the THURINGIAN FOREST; Oct. 4, 1855. IN FRÄULEIN JULIE FINCKH'S ALBUM. HEILBRONN, SEPT. 19, 1855. PLEASANT it is to journey on and on, Obsérving still new lands and peoples strange, Which with so friendly courtesy receives us, Thát we stop short and say: "Why one step further?” |