PART II.

On high, from the heaven’s blue canopy, Many thousand stars are gleaming, Like the eyes of fair women, so large and clear, And with locks of yearning beaming.

They’re looking down on the ocean below, Whose waves in the distance are curling, In phosphorescent blue vapour all veil’d, While the billows are joyously whirling.

Not a sail on the slave-ship is fluttering now, As though without tackle she’s lying; But lanthorns are glimmering high on the decks Where the dance with the music is vying.

The cook of the vessel is playing the flute, The steersman’s playing the fiddle, The trumpet is blown by the Doctor himself, And a lad beats the drum in the middle.

A hundred niggers, both women and men, Are yelling and whirling and leaping, As though they were mad; and at every spring Their irons the tune are keeping.

They stamp on the ground in uproarious mirth, And many a swarthy maiden Clasps her naked partner with warmth, while at times The air with their groanings is laden.

The jailer acts as _maître des plaisirs_, And dealing his lashes so fearful, The weary dancers he stimulates, And bids them be merry and cheerful.

So dideldumdei and schnedderedeng! The strange unwonted commotion Aroused from their lazy slumbers below The monsters fierce of the ocean.

All-heavy with sleep, the sharks swam up, In numbers many a hundred; They stupidly stared at the ship on high With amazement, and blindly wondered.

They see that their usual breakfast time Has not come as soon as ’tis wanted, So they gape and ope wide their throats, their jaws With teeth like saws being planted.

And dideldumdei and schnedderedeng! There seems no end to the dances; The sharks grow impatient, and bite themselves In the tail with their teeth like lances.

I presume that for music they’ve got no taste, Like many an ignoramus; Trust not the beast that music loves not, Says Albion’s poet famous.

And schnedderedeng and dideldumdei! Not one of the dancers seems lazy; At the foremast stands Mynher Van Koek, And with folded hands thus prays he:

“For Christ’s dear sake, O spare, good Lord, “The lives of these swarthy sinners; “If they’ve anger’d thee e’er, thou know’st they’re as dull “As the beasts that we eat for our dinners.

“O spare their lives, for Christ’s dear sake, “Who died for our salvation; “For unless I have left me three hundred head, “There’s an end to my occupation.”

7. AFFRONTENBURG.

Time fleeteth, yet that castle old, With all its battlements, its tower, And simple folk that in it dwelt, Appears before me every hour.

I ever see the weathercock That on the roof turn’d round so drily; Each person, ere he spoke a word, Was wont to look up tow’rds it slily.

He that would talk, first learnt the wind, For fear the ancient grumbler Boreas Might turn against him suddenly, Tormenting him with blast uproarious.

In truth, the wisest held their tongues, For in that place an echo sported, Which, when it answer’d back the voice, Each word maliciously distorted.

Amidst the castle garden stood A marble fount, with sphinxes round it, For ever dry, though tears enough Had flow’d inside it, to have drown’d it.

O most accursèd garden! Ah, No single spot was in thy keeping Wherein my heart had not been sad, Wherein my eye had not known weeping.

No single tree did it contain Beneath whose shade affronts injurious Had not against me utter’d been By tongues ironical or furious.

The toad that listen’d in the grass Unto the rat hath all confided, Who told his aunt the viper straight The news in which himself he prided.

She in her turn told cousin frog,-- And in this manner each relation In the whole filthy race soon learnt My dire affronts and sad vexation.

The garden roses were full fair, And sweet the fragrance that they scatter’d; Yet early wither’d they and died, By a mysterious poison shatter’d.

And next the nightingale was sick To death,--that songster loved and cherish’d. That sang to every rose her song; Through her own poison’s taste she perish’d.

O most accursèd garden! Yea, It was as though a curse oppress’d it; Oft was I seized by ghostly fear, While broad clear daylight still possess’d it.

The green-eyed spectre on me grinn’d, Terror with fearful mockery vying, While from the yew-trees straightway rose A sound of groaning, choking, sighing.

At the long alley’s end arose The terrace where the Baltic Ocean At time of flood its billows dash’d Against the rocks in wild commotion.

There sees one far across the main, There stood I oft, in wild dreams roaming; The breakers fill’d my heart as well With ceaseless roaring, raging, foaming.

A foaming, raging, roaring ’twas, As powerless as the billows curling That the hard rock broke mournfully, Proudly as they their shocks were hurling.

With envy saw I ships pass by, Some happier country seeking gladly, While I am in this castle chain’d With bonds accurst, and pining sadly.

8. APPENDIX TO “LAZARUS.”[87]

I.

Holy parables discarding, And each guess, however pious, To these awful questions plainly Seek with answers to supply us:--

Wherefore bends the Just One, bleeding ’Neath the cross’s weight laborious, While upon his steed the Wicked Rides all-proudly and victorious?

Wherein lies the fault? It is not That our God is not almighty? Or hath he himself offended?-- Such a thought seems wild and flighty.

Thus are we for ever asking, Till at length our mouths securely With a clod of earth are fasten’d,-- That is not an answer, surely?

II.

My head by the maiden swarthy but fair Was press’d ’gainst her bosom with yearning; But, alas! to grey soon turn’d my hair, Where had fallen her tears so burning.

She kiss’d me ill, and she kiss’d me lame, She kiss’d till my eyes were faded; My spinal marrow dried up became, By her mouth’s wild sucking pervaded.

My body is now a corpse, wherein My spirit is fetter’d closely; ’Tis often angry, and makes a din, And storms and struggles morosely,

O impotent curses! Not even a fly Can be kill’d by mere execrations; Submit to thy fate, and patiently try To bear Heaven’s dispensations.

III.

How slowly time is crawling on, That serpent terrible and creeping! While I, alas! all-motionless, On the same spot am ever weeping.

On my dark cell no ray of hope Hath shone, no sunbeam e’er hath risen; For nothing but the churchyard’s vault Shall I exchange this fatal prison.

Perchance I long ago did die, Perchance the phantasies which nightly Hold in my brain their shifting dance Are nought but ghostly forms unsightly.

They may full well the spectres be Of some old heathen gods or devils; They gladly choose the empty skull Of a dead poet for their revels.

Those orgies sweet but terrible, Those nightly ghost-acts, full of warning, The poet’s corpse-hand ofttimes seeks To place on record in the morning.

IV.

Once saw I many a blooming flower Upon my way, but slothfully Stoop’d not to pluck them in that hour, And on my proud steed hasten’d by.

Now when I’m near to death, and languish, Now when beneath me yawns the tomb, Oft in my thought, with bitter anguish, Returns the’ unheeded flowers’ perfume.

But most of all, my brain is burning With a bright yellow violet fair; Wild beauty! How I grieve with yearning, To think that I enjoy’d thee ne’er!

My comfort is: Oblivion’s waters Have not yet lost their olden might The dull hearts of earth’s sons and daughters To steep in Lethe’s blissful night.

V.

I saw them laughing, smiling gladly,-- I saw them ruin’d utterly; I heard them weeping, dying sadly,-- And yet I utter’d not a sigh.

Each corpse I as a mourner follow’d, Yea, to the churchyard follow’d I, And then--with appetite I swallow’d, My noontide meal, I’ll not deny.

I now recall that band long perish’d, With feelings sadden’d and oppress’d: Like sudden glowing love once cherish’d They strangely storm within my breast.

And most ’tis Juliet’s tears so burning That in my memory spring to light; My sadness turns to ceaseless yearning, I call upon her day and night.

In feverish dreams, with soft emotion The faded flower oft comes again; Methinks a posthumous devotion To my love’s glow it offers then.

O gentle phantom, clasp me often With strong and ever stronger power; Unto my lips press thine, and soften The bitterness of this last hour.

VI.

Thou wast a maiden fair, so good and kindly, So neat, so cool--in vain I waited blindly Till came the hour wherein thy gentle heart Would ope, and inspiration play its part.

Yea, inspiration for those lofty things Which prose and reason deem but wanderings, But yet for which the noble, lovely, good Upon this earth rave, suffer, shed their blood.

Upon the Rhine’s fair strand, where vine-hills smile, Once in glad summer days we roam’d the while; Bright laugh’d the sun, sweet incense in that hour Stream’d from the beauteous cup of every flower.

The purple pinks and roses breath’d in turn Red kisses on us, which like fire did burn; Even the smallest daisy’s faint perfume Appear’d a life ideal then to bloom.

But thou didst peacefully beside me go, In a white satin dress, demure and slow, Like some girl’s portrait limn’d by Netscher’s art, A little glacier seem’d to be thy heart.

VII.

At reason’s solemn judgment-seat Thy full acquittal hath been spoken; The verdict says: the little one By word or deed no law hath broken.

Yes, dumb and motionless thou stood’st, While madd’ning flames were raging through me; Thou stirredst not, no word thou spak’st, Yet thou’lt be ever guilty to me.

Throughout my visions every night A voice accusing ceaseth never To charge thee with ill will, and say That thou hast ruin’d me for ever.

It brings its proofs and witnesses, Its musty rolls from thought long banish’d And yet at morning, with my dream, Lo, the accuser too hath vanish’d!

Now hath it in my inmost heart, With all its records, refuge taken-- One only haunts my memory still: That I am ruin’d and forsaken.

VIII.

Thy letter was a flash of lightning, Illuming night with sudden glow; It served with dazzling force to show How deep my misery is, how fright’ning.

E’en thou compassion then didst share, Who, ’mid my life’s sad desolation, Stood’st, like the sculptor’s mute creation, As cold as marble, and as fair.

O God, how wretched must I be! For into speech her lips are waking, From out her eyes the tears are breaking, The stone feels for me tenderly.

The sight hath fill’d me with confusion; Have pity, Lord, though thou mayst chasten, Thy peace bestow, and quickly hasten This fearful tragedy’s conclusion.

IX.

The true sphynx’s form’s the same as Woman’s; this I see full clearly; And the paws and lion’s body Are the poet’s fancy merely.

Dark as death is still the riddle Of this true sphynx. E’en the clever Son and husband of Jocasta Such a hard one found out never.

By good luck, though, woman knows not Her own riddle’s explanation; If the answer she discover’d, Earth would fall from its foundation.

X.

Three women sit at the crossway lonely, They’re thinking and spinning, They’re sighing and grinning; Their very aspect is hideous only.

The distaff the first holds, so placid; The threads she setteth, And each one wetteth; So her hanging lip is all dry and flaccid.

The spindle the second one dances In a circle ’tis whirling, In droll fashion twirling; The old woman’s eyes shoot blood-red glances.

The third Fate’s hands, so befitting, Hold the scissors so dreary, She hums Miserere, And sharp is her nose, with a wart on it sitting.

O hasten thee quickly, and sever My life’s thread so sadd’ning, Escaping this madd’ning Turmoil of life’s distresses for ever!

XI.

I scorn the heavenly plains above me, In the blest land of Paradise; No fairer women there will love me Than those whom here on earth I prize.

No angel blest, his high flight winging, Could there replace my darling wife; To sit on clouds, whilst psalms I’m singing, Would small enjoyment give to life.

O Lord, methinks ’twere best to leave me Upon this lower world to dwell; But first from sufferings reprieve me, Some money granting me as well.

The world, I know, is overflowing With sin and misery; yet I Have learnt full well the art of going Along its pavement quietly.

Life’s bustle cannot now annoy me, For ’tis but seldom that I roam; Beside my wife I’d fain employ me In slippers and loose-coat at home.

Leave me with her! When she is prattling, My soul drinks in the music dear Of that sweet voice, so gaily rattling,-- Her look so faithful is and clear!

For health alone and means of living, Lord, ask I! Let me stay below For many a day its blessings giving, Beside my wife _in statu quo_!

9. THE DRAGONFLY.

The beauteous dragonfly’s dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair.

Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body’s bright splendour, And also her figure so slender.

Full many a beetle, to his cost, His modicum small of reason lost; Her wooers are humming of love and truth, Brabant and Holland pledging forsooth.

The dragonfly smiled and thus spake she: “Brabant and Holland are nought to me; “But haste, if my charms you admire, “And fetch me a sparklet of fire.

“The cook has just been brought to bed, “And I my supper must cook instead; “The coals on the hearth are burnt away,-- “So fetch me a sparklet of fire, I pray.”

Scarce had the false one spoken the word, When off the beetles flew, like a bird. They seek for fire, and soon they find Their home in the wood’s left far behind.

At length they see a candle’s light In garden-bower burning bright; And then with amorous senseless aim, They headlong rush in the candle’s flame.

The candle’s flame with crackling consumed The beetles and their fond hearts so doom’d: While some with their lives did expiation, Some only lost wings in the conflagration.

O woe to the beetle, whose wings have been Burnt off! In a foreign land, I ween, He must crawl on the ground like vermin fell, With humid insects that nastily smell.

One’s bad companions--he’s heard to say,-- Are the worst of plagues, in exile’s day. We’re forced to converse with every sort Of noxious creatures, of bugs in short,

Who treat us as though their comrades were we, Because in the selfsame mud we be. Of this complain’d old Virgil’s scholar, The poet of exile and hell, with choler.

I think with grief of the happier time, When I in my glory’s well-winged prime In my native ether was playing, On sunny flowers was straying.

From rosy calixes food I drew, Was thought of importance, and wheeling flew With butterflies all of elegance rare, And with the cricket, the artist fair.

But since my poor wings I happen’d to burn, To my fatherland now I ne’er can return; I’m turn’d to a worm, that will soon expire, I’m rotting away in foreign mire.

O would that I had never met The dragonfly, that azure coquette, With figure so fine and slender, The fair but cruel pretender!

10. ASCENSION.

The body lay on the bier of death, While the poor soul, when gone its breath, Escaping from earth’s constant riot, Was on its way to heavenly quiet.

Then knock’d it at the portal high, And spake these words with a heavy sigh: “Saint Peter, give me inside a place, “I am so tired of life’s hard race.

“On silken pillows I fain would rest “In heaven’s bright realms, and play my best “With darling angels at blindman’s-buff, “Enjoying repose and bliss enough!”

A clatter of slippers ere long was heard, A bunch of keys appear’d to be stirr’d, And out of a lattice, the entrance near, Saint Peter’s visage was seen to peer.

He spake: “The vagabonds come again, “The gipsies, Poles, and their beggarly train, “The idlers and the Hottentots-- “They come alone and they come in knots, “And fain would enter on heaven’s bright rest, “And there be angels, and there be blest. “Halloa, halloa! For gallows’ faces “Like yours, for such contemptible races “Were never created the halls of bliss,-- “Your portion’s with Satan, far off from this. “Away, away, and take your flight “To the black pool of endless night.”--

The old man thus growl’d, but hadn’t the heart To continue to play a blustering part, So added these words, its spirits to cheer: “Poor soul, in truth thou dost not appear “To that base troop of rogues to belong-- “Well, well, I’ll grant thy desire so strong, “Because it is my birthday to-day, “And I feel just now in a merciful way. “But meanwhile tell me the country and place “From whence thou comest; and was it the case “That thou wast married? It happens sometimes “A husband’s patience atones for all crimes; “A husband need not in hell to be stew’d, “Nor need we him from heaven exclude.”

The soul replied: “From Prussia I came, “My native town is Berlin by name, “There ripples the Spree, and in its bed “The young cadets jump heels over head; “It overflows kindly, when rains begin-- “A beautiful spot is indeed Berlin! “I was a private teacher when there, “And much philosophy read with care. “I married a chanoinesse--strange to say, “She quarrell’d frightfully every day, “Especially when in the house was no bread-- “’Twas this that kill’d me, and now I am dead.”

Saint Peter cried: “Alack, alack! “Philosophy’s but the trade of a quack. “In truth it is a puzzle to me “Why people study philosophy. “It is such tedious and profitless stuff, “And is moreover godless enough; “In hunger and doubt their votaries dwell, “Till Satan carries them off to hell. “Well thy Xantippe might make exclamations “Against the thin and washy potations “From whence upon her, with comforting gleam “No eye of fat could ever beam. “But now, poor soul, pray comforted be! “The strictest commands are given to me, “’Tis true, that each who whilst he did live “To philosophy used his attention to give, “Especially to the godless German, “Should be driven away from hence like vermin. “Yet ’tis my birthday to-day, as I “Have said, so there is a reason why “I’ll not reject thee, but ope for a minute “The gate of heaven--quick, enter within it “With utmost speed-- “Now all is right! “The whole of the day, from morn’s first light “Till late in the evening, thou canst walk “Round heaven at will, and dreamily stalk “Along its jewel-paved streets so fair; “But mind, thou must not meddle when there “With any philosophy, or I shall be “Soon compromised most terribly. “When angels thou hearest singing, assume “A face of rapture, and never of gloom; “But if an archangel sang the song, “Be full of inspiration strong, “And say that Malibran ne’er pretended “To have a soprano so rich and splendid; “And ever applaud each tuneful hymn “Of cherubim and of seraphim. “Compare them all with Signor Rubini, “With Mario and Tamburini, “Give them the title of Excellencies, “And be not sparing of reverencies. “The singers in heaven, as well as on earth, “Have all loved flattery since their birth. “The world’s great Chapel-master on high, “E’en He is pleased when they glorify “His works, and delighteth to hear ador’d “The wonders of God, the mighty Lord, “And when a psalm to His glory and praise “In thickest incense clouds they raise.

“Forget me not. Whenever to thee “The glory of heaven causes ennui, “Then hither come, and at cards we’ll play. “All games alike are in my way, “From doubledummy to faro I’ll go,-- “We’ll also drink. But, _apropos_, “If thou should’st meet, when going from hence, “The Lord, and He should ask thee from whence “Thou com’st, let no word of Berlin be said, “But say, from Vienna or Munich instead.”

11. THE AFFIANCED ONES.

Thou weep’st, and on me look’st, believing That thou art for my anguish grieving-- Thou know’st not, wife, that ’tis for thee The tear escapes thee, not for me.

O tell me if it be not true That o’er thy spirit sometimes grew The blest foreboding, showing thee That we were join’d by fate’s decree? United, bliss was ours below, But sever’d, nought is ours but woe.

In the great book ’tis written clearly That we should love each other dearly. Thy place should be upon my breast, Here first awoke self-knowledge blest; From out the realm of plants, with power ’Twas mine to free, to kiss thee, flower!-- Raise thee to me, to highest life, ’Twas mine to give thee soul, my wife.

Now, when reveal’d the riddles stand, When in the hour-glass is the sand Run out, weep not, ’tis order’d so-- Alone thou’lt wither, when I go; Thou’lt wither, ere thou yet hast bloom’d, Ere thou hast glow’d, be quench’d and doom’d; Thou’lt die and be the prey of death Ere thou hast learnt to draw thy breath.

I know it now. By heaven, ’tis thou Whom I have loved. How bitter now, The moment we are join’d for ever, To find the hour when we must sever. The welcome meanwhile must give way To sad farewell. We part to-day For evermore, for ’tis not given To us to meet again in heaven. Beauty to dust will fall at last, Thou’lt pass away, and crumble fast. The poets’ fate will happier be, Death cannot kill them utterly. Annihilation strikes us ne’er, We live in poesy’s land so fair, In Avalon, where fairies dwell-- Dear corpse, for ever fare thee well!

12. THE PHILANTHROPIST.

There once was a brother and sister, The sister was poor, the brother was rich. The poor one said to the rich one: “Give me a piece of bread.”

The rich one said to the poor one: “Leave me to-day in peace, “While I give my yearly banquet “To the lords of the Council all.

“The first doth turtlesoup relish, “The second doth pineapples eat, “The third is fond of pheasant “And Perigord truffles too.

“The fourth eats nought but seafish, “The fifth in salmon delights, “The sixth of each dish eateth, “And drinketh even more.”

The poor rejected sister Went hungry back to her house; She threw herself on her straw-bed, And deeply sighed and died.

We all alike must perish! The scythe of death at last Mowed down the wealthy brother, As it the sister had mown.

And when the wealthy brother His end approaching saw, He sent for his notary quickly, And straightway made his will.

With legacies large and lib’ral The clergy he endow’d, The schools, and the great museum Of zoological things.

And noble sums moreover The great testator bequeath’d To the deaf and dumb asylum And Jewish Conversion fund.

A handsome bell bestow’d he On the new Saint Stephen’s tower; It weighs five hundred centners, Of first-rate metal too.

It is a bell enormous, And sounds both early and late; It sounds to the praise and glory Of that most excellent man.

It tells, with its tongue of iron, Of all the good he has done To the town and his fellow-townsmen, Whatever might be their faith.

Thou great benefactor of mortals In death as well as in life The great bell’s ever proclaiming Each benefaction of thine!

The funeral next with all honour And pomp was solemnized, The people crowded to see it And reverently gazed.

Upon a coal-black carriage, Like a vast canopy Adorn’d with black ostrich feathers, The splendid coffin lay.

Trick’d out with plates of silver, And silver embroidery fine, Upon the black ground the silver The grandest effect produced.

The carriage was drawn by six horses, In coal-black trappings disguised, That fell, like funeral mantles, Down even to their hoofs.

Behind the coffin were crowded The servants in liveries black, Their snow-white handkerchiefs holding Before their sorrowing face.

The people of rank in the city, In long procession form’d Of black and showy coaches, Totter’d along behind.

In this grand fun’ral procession, Remember, were also found The noble lords of the Council, And yet they were not complete.

The one was missing, whose fancy Was pheasant and truffles to eat; An attack of indigestion Had lately carried him off.

13. THE WHIMS OF THE AMOROUS.

(A true story, repeated after old documents and reproduced in excellent rhyme.)

Upon the hedge the beetle sits sadly, He has fallen in love with a lady-fly madly.

O fly of my soul, ’tis thou alone Art the wife I have chosen to be my own.

O marry me, and be not cold, For I have a belly of glistening gold.

My back is a mass of glory and show, There rubies glitter, there emeralds glow--

O would that I were a fool just now! I’d never marry a beetle, I vow.

I care not for emeralds, rubies, or gold, I know that no happiness riches enfold.

’Tis tow’rd the ideal my thought soars high, For I am in truth a haughty fly.--

The beetle flew off, with a heart like to break, The fly went away, a bath to take.

O what has become of my maid, the bee, That she when I’m washing may wait on me,

That she may stroke my soft hair outside, For I am now a beetle’s bride.

In truth, a splendid party I’ll give, For handsomer beetle never did live.

His back is a mass of glory and show, There rubies glitter, there emeralds glow.

His belly is golden, and noble each feature; With envy will burst full many a creature.

Make haste, Miss Bee, and dress my hair, And lace my waist, use perfumes rare.

With otto of roses rub me o’er, And lavender oil on my feet then pour,

That I mayn’t stink or nastily smell, When I in my bridegroom’s arms shall dwell.

Already are flitting the dragonflies blue, As maids of honour to wait on me too.

Into my bridal garland they’ll twine The blossoms white of the orange so fine.

Full many musicians are asked to the place, And singers as well, of the grasshopper race.

The bittern, drone, hornet, and gadfly all come, To blow on the trumpet, and beat the drum.

They’re all to strike up for the glad wedding feast-- The gay-wingèd guests, from greatest to least,

Are coming in families dapper and brisk, The commoner insects amongst them frisk.

The grasshoppers, wasps, and the aunts, and the cousins Are coming, whilst trumpets are blowing by dozens.

The pastor, the mole, in black dignified state, Has also arrived, and the hour grows late.

The bells are all sounding ding-dong, ding-a-dong-- But where’s my dear bridegroom ling’ring so long?

Ding dong, ding-a-dong, sound the bells all the day, The bridegroom however has flown far away.

The bells are all sounding ding-dong, ding-a-dong-- But where’s my dear bridegroom ling’ring so long?

The bridegroom has meanwhile taken his seat On a distant dunghill, enjoying the heat.

Seven years there sits he, until his forgotten Poor bride has long been dead and rotten.

14. MIMI.

“I’m no modest city creature “By the hearth demurely spinning, “But a free cat on the roof, “In the air, with manners winning.

“When in summer nights I’m musing “On the roof, in grateful coolness, “Music in me purrs, I sing “From my heart’s o’erpowering fulness.”

Thus she speaks, and from her bosom Wild and wedding-songs stream thickly, And the melody allures All the cats unmarried quickly.

Purring, mewing, thither hasten All the young cats, plain or brindled, And with Mimi join in chorus, Full of love, with passion kindled.

They are no mere virtuosos Who profane, for sordid wages, Music, but of harmony Are apostles true, and sages.

They no instruments use ever, Each is his own flute and viol; All their noses trumpets are, Bellies, drums, and no denial.

They in chorus raise their voices, In one general intermezzo, Playing fugues, as if by Bach, Or by Guido of Arezzo.

Wild the symphonies they’re singing Like capriccios of Beethoven, Or of Berlioz, who’s excell’d By their strains so interwoven.

Wonderful their music’s might is! Magic notes without an equal! E’en the heavens they shake, the stars All turn pallid in the sequel.

When the magic notes she heareth, And the wondrous tones delightful, Then Selene hides her face With a veil of clouds so frightful.

But the nightingale with envy-- Scandalous old prima donna-- Turns her nose up, snuffs, and scorns Mimi’s voice, to her dishonour.

Never mind! She’ll go on singing Spite the envy of Signora, Till on the horizon’s seen, Smiling rosily, Aurora.

15. GOOD ADVICE.

Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow, Boldly woo, and, not aside, Civil they will be to-morrow, And thou thus wilt win thy bride.

’Tis the fiddle makes the revel,-- Give, then, the musicians gold; Though thou wish them at the devil, Kiss thy aunts-in-law, though old.

Give a prince his meed of laurel, Of a woman speak not ill; With thy sausages don’t quarrel When thou hast a sow to kill.

If the church to thee is hateful, All the more attend its shrine; To the parson be thou grateful, Send him, too, a flask of wine.

If an itching chance to teaze thee, Like a man of honour, scratch; If thy shoe be tight and squeeze thee, Slippers get with all despatch.

If thy soup has too much seasoning, Be not in an angry mood; Smiling say, instead of reasoning: “Sweet wife, all thou cook’st is good.”

If thy wife a wish expresses For a shawl, straight buy her two; Buy her golden brooches, dresses, Lace and jewels not a few.

If thou’lt give this plan a trial, Then, my friend, thou’lt surely gain Heaven to bless thy self-denial, And on earth to peace attain.

16. REMINISCENCES OF HAMMONIA.[88]

Orphan children two and two, Wandering gladly on we view, All of them blue coats are wearing, All of them red cheeks are bearing-- O the pretty orphan children!

All are moved when thus they prattle, And the money boxes rattle; Liberal alms upon them flow, That their secret sires bestow,-- O the pretty orphan children!

Women of a feeling heart Many a poor child kiss apart, Kiss his driv’lling nose (not pleasant), Give him sweetmeats as a present-- O the pretty orphan children!

One, with timid face but willing, Throws into the box a shilling,-- For he has a heart,--then gaily Follows he his business daily-- O the pretty orphan children!

One a golden louis-d’or Next bestows, but not before Heavenward looking, hoping blindly That the Lord will view him kindly-- O the pretty orphan children!

Porters, coopers, working men, Servants, make to-day again Holiday, and drain their glasses, Drinking to these lads and lasses-- O the pretty orphan children!

Tutelar Hammonia Follows them incognita; As she moves, her form gigantic Sways about, in manner frantic-- O the pretty orphan children!

In the green field where they went Music fills the lofty tent, Cover’d o’er with flag and banner; There are fed in sumptuous manner All these pretty orphan children.

There in lengthy rows they sit, Eating many a nice tit-bit, Tarts and cakes and sweet things crunching, While like little mice they’re munching,-- All these pretty orphan children.

Now my thoughts to dwell begin On an orphan-house wherein There no feasting is or gladness, Where lament in ceaseless sadness, Millions of poor orphan children.

There no uniforms are seen, Many want their dinner e’en; No two walk together yonder, Lonely, sorrowfully wander Many million orphan children.

17. THE ROBBERS.

While Laura’s arm, with tender feeling, Embraced me on the couch, the fox Her worthy husband from my box My banknotes quietly was stealing.

My pockets now have got no cash in! Was Laura’s kiss a simple lie? Ah! what is truth? In days gone by Thus Pilate ask’d, his hands while washing.

This evil world, decay’d and rotten, I soon shall ne’er again behold; I see that he who has no gold Will very soon be quite forgotten.

For you, pure souls, whose habitation In yonder realms of light I see, My bosom yearns. No wants have ye, So stealing is not your vocation.

18. THE YOUNG CATS’ CLUB FOR POETRY-MUSIC

The philharmonic young cats’ club Upon the roof was collected To-night, but not for sensual joys, No wrong could there be detected.

No summer night’s wedding dream there was dreamt, No song of love did they utter In the winter season, in frost and snow, For frozen was every gutter.

A newborn spirit hath recently Come over the whole cat-nation, But chiefly the young, and the young cat feels More earnest with inspiration.

The frivolous generation of old Is extinct, and a newborn yearning, A pussy-springtime of poetry In art and in life they’re learning.

The philharmonic young cats’ club Is now returning to artless And primitive music, and naïveté, From modern fashions all heartless.

It seeks in music for poetry, Roulades with the quavers omitted It seeks for poetry, music-void, For voice and instrument fitted.

It seeks for genius’s sovereign sway, Which often bungles truly, Yet oft in art unconsciously Attains the highest stage duly.

It honours the genius which prefers Dame Nature to keep at a distance, And will not show off its learning,--in fact Its learning not having existence.

This is the programme of our cat club, And with these intentions elated, It holds its first winter concert to-night On the roof, as before I have stated.

Yet sad was the execution, alas! Of this great idea so splendid; I’m sorry, my dear friend Berlioz, That by thee it wasn’t attended.

It was a charivari, as though With brandy elated greatly, Three dozen pipers struck up the tune That the poor cow died of lately.

It was an utter medley, as though In Noah’s ark were beginning The whole of the beasts in unison The Deluge to tell of in singing,

O what a croaking, snarling, and noise! O what a mewing and yelling! And even the chimneys all join’d in, The wonderful chorus swelling.

And loudest of all was heard a voice Which sounded languid and shrieking As Sontag’s voice became at the last, When utterly broken and squeaking.

The whimsical concert! Methinks that they A grand Te Deum were chanting, To honour the triumph o’er reason obtain’d By commonest frenzy and canting.

Perchance moreover the young cats’ club The opera grand were essaying That the greatest pianist of Hungary[89] Composed for Charenton’s playing.

It was not till the break of day That an end was put to the party; A cook was in consequence brought to bed Who before had seem’d well and hearty.

The lying-in woman lost her wits, Her memory, too, was affected, And who was the father of her child No longer she recollected.

Say, was it Peter? Say, was it Paul? Say who is the father, Eliza! “O Liszt, thou heavenly cat!” she said, And simper’d and look’d the wiser.

19. HANS LACK-LAND.

Farewell, my wife, said Lack-Land Hans, A lofty object elates me; Far different goats I now must shoot, Far different game awaits me.

I’ll leave thee behind my hunting horn, Thou canst in my absence daily,. Play merrily on it, for thou hast learnt To blow on the post-horn gaily.

I’ll also leave thee behind my hound, To be the castle’s defender; My German folk, like faithful dogs, Will guard me and never surrender.

They offer me the imperial throne, Their affection is almost provoking My image is graven on every heart, And every pipe they are smoking.

Ye Germans are a wonderful race, So simple and yet so clever; One forgets that gunpowder, but for you, Had been discover’d never.

Your emperor,--no, your father I’ll be, Your welfare shall be my sole glory-- O blissful thought! it makes me as proud As the Gracchi’s mother in story.

I’ll govern my people by feeling alone, And not by the light of mere reason; I never could bear diplomacy, And politics hate like treason.

A huntsman am I, and Nature’s own child, Who had in the forest my training, With chamois and snipe and roebuck and boar,-- A foe to all nonsense and feigning.

By proclamations I never enticed, No printed pamphlet invented; I say: “My people, the salmon’s all gone, “With cod for to-day be contented.

“If I don’t please you as Emperor, take “The first donkey that comes about you; “I had, when I lived in the Tyrol, no lack, “I’ve plenty to eat without you.”

Thus speak I, but now, my wife, farewell, I must end my long discourses; My father-in-law’s postilion’s outside, Awaiting me with the horses.

Quick, hand me over my travelling cap, With the ribbon all black-red-golden; Thou’lt see me soon with the diadem, In the dress imperial and olden.

Thou’lt see me in the Pluvial too, The purple robe so glorious, The gift of the Saracen Sultan erst To Otto, the Cæsar victorious.

Beneath, I shall wear the Dalmatian dress, Whereon, in each species of jewel, A train of lions and camels is work’d, And fabulous monsters and cruel.

Upon my breast the stole I shall wear, Significantly blended With eagles black on a yellow ground,-- The garment is really splendid.

Farewell! Posterity shall say I reign’d with honest intention.-- Who knows? Posterity perchance My name will never mention.

20. RECOLLECTIONS FROM KRÄHWINKEL’S DAYS OF TERROR.

We, mayor and senate of the town, The following orders now lay down To all who love their city truly, Enjoining them to keep them duly.

’Tis foreigners and strangers most Who their rebellious spirit boast; Thank God, such rogues (to put it fairly) The children of the soil are rarely.

The Atheists likewise are concern’d; For he by whom his God is spurn’d Is sure at last to hold detested All those on earth with power invested.

Christian and Jew, at close of day, Must shut their shops without delay; “Obey your rulers” should be ever Both Jew and Christian’s first endeavour.

No person shall be seen at night In any street without a light; Where three or more in groups are standing, Let them at once begin disbanding.

Each one must bring his weapons all, And lay them down in the guildhall; And every kind of ammunition Is subject to the same condition.

He who in any public spot Ventures to reason, shall be shot; He who by gestures dares to reason Shall pay the penalty of treason.

Confide in the authorities, So gracious, but withal so wise, Who rule the fortunes of the city, And hold your tongues, or more’s the pity.

21. THE AUDIENCE.

(An old Fable.)

“I’ll let not my children, like Pharaoh, be drown’d “In the Nile’s deep turbulent water; “Nor am I a tyrant, like Herod of old, “No patron of children’s slaughter.

“I will, as my gracious Saviour did, “Find the sight of the children pleasant; “So suffer the children to come, and first “The big one, the Swabian peasant.”

Thus spake the monarch; the chamberlain ran, And return’d, introducing slowly The stalwart child from Swabia’s land, Who made a reverence lowly.

Thus spake the king: “A Swabian art thou? “There’s no disgrace in that surely.”-- “Quite right! I was born in Swabia’s land,” Replied the Swabian demurely.

“Art thou from the seven Swabians sprung?” Ask’d the other.--“In truth I’m descended “From one of them only,” the Swabian replied, “And not from the whole of them blended.”

The king then ask’d: “Are dumplings this year “In Swabia as usual eaten?”-- “I’m obliged for the question,” the Swabian rejoin’d, “They are not easily beaten.”

“And do ye still boast big men?” next said The monarch.--“Why, just at present “The big ones are scarce, but in their place “We’ve fat ones,” answer’d the peasant.

“Has Menzel,” added the king, “received “On his ear many boxes lately?” “I’m obliged for the question,” the Swabian said, “The former ones punish’d him greatly.”

The king then said, “Thou’rt not such a fool, “My friend, as thou fain wouldst persuade me.” “That’s because I was changed in my cradle,” said he, “By the cobolds, who different made me.”

The king then spake: “The Swabians are wont “To love their fatherland dearly; “So why hast thou left thy native home? “Explain the reason clearly.”

The Swabian replied: “Each day I had nought “But turnips and sour-crout ever; “And had my mother but cook’d me meat, “I had left my fatherland never.”

“One wish I will grant thee,” the monarch then said-- Then the Swabian in deep supplication Knelt down and exclaim’d: “O, Sire, pray grant “Their freedom once more to the nation.

“Freeborn is man, and Nature ne’er meant “That he as a slave should perish; “O, Sire, restore to the German folk “The rights that they manfully cherish!”

The monarch in deep amazement stood, The scene was really enthralling; With his sleeve the Swabian wiped from his eye The tear that was wellnigh falling.

At last said the king: “In truth a fine dream! “Farewell, and pray learn more discretion; “And as a somnambulist plainly thou art, “Of thy person I’ll give the possession

“To two trusty gendarmes, whose duty ’twill be “To see thee safe over the border-- “Farewell! I must hasten to join the parade, “The drums are beating to order.”

And so this affecting audience came To a most affecting conclusion. But from that moment the monarch allow’d No more of his children’s intrusion.[90]

22. KOBES I.

In eighteen hundred and forty-eight, When passions men’s minds were heating, The German nation’s parliament At Frankfort held its meeting.

Just at this time, in the Senate-house Appear’d the white lady ghostly, The spectre that heralds the coming of woe,-- They call her the Housekeeper mostly.

By night they say in the Senate-house She is wont to make her appearance, Whenever the Germans their foolish tricks play With extra perseverance.

I saw her myself at the selfsame time As she roam’d in the hours of slumber Through the silent chambers, wherein were piled The middle ages’ old lumber.

She held the lamp and a bunch of keys In her hands so pale and sickly; She open’d the presses against the walls, And the chests strew’d around her thickly.

There lie the imperial insignia all, There lies the bull all-golden, The sceptre, the regal apple, the crown, And more of such fancies olden.

There lie the ancient imperial robes, The purple frippery faded, The German kingdom’s wardrobe in fact, Now rusted and rot-pervaded.

The Housekeeper mournfully shakes her head At the sight, then with deep displeasure She suddenly cries at the top of her voice: “The whole of them stink beyond measure!

“The whole of them stink with mice’s dung “And rotten and mouldy’s the ermine; “And all the gaudy trumpery work “Is swarming with noxious vermin.

“In truth, on this splendid ermine dress, “Once used at the coronation, “The cats of the Senate-house district are wont “To lie, as their lying-in station.

“’Tis useless to clean them; I pity the fate “Of the Emperor next elected; “By the fleas in his coronation robe “His health will be surely affected.

“And know ye, that all the people must scratch, “Whenever the Emperor itches-- “O Germans, I dread the princely fleas “Who swallow up much of your riches.

“Yet what is the use of monarch and fleas? “For rusty are now and all rotten “The olden costumes--By modern days “Are the ancient dresses forgotten.

“The German poet at Kyffhauser said “To Barbarossa quite truly: “‘I find that we want no Emperor now, “When I weigh the matter duly.’

“But if, spite of all, ye an empire must have, “With an Emperor reigning o’er ye, “My worthy Germans, don’t suffer yourselves “To be snared by genius or glory.

“Choose one of the people your monarch to be, “All sons of the nobles reject ye; “Select not the lion, select not the fox, “The dullest of sheep elect ye.

“Elect as your Monarch Colonia’s son, “The crown to dull Kobes awarding; “The genius of Dulness well-nigh is he, “His people he’ll ne’er be defrauding.

“A log is ever the best of kings, “As Esop has shown in the fable; “He cannot devour us poor frogs up, “As the stork with his long bill is able.

“Be sure that Kobes no tyrant will be, “No Holofernes or Nero; “He boasts no terrible antique heart, “A soft modern heart has our hero.

“Though vulgar pride might scorn such a heart “Yet in the arms of the helot “Of work the unfortunate threw himself, “Becoming a regular zealot.

“The men of the journeymen’s _Burschenschaft_ “As president Kobes elected; “He shared with them their last piece of bread, “They held him vastly respected.

“They boasted that he in all his life “Had never been at college, “And out of his head composed his books “By the light of intuitive knowledge.

“Yes, his consummate ignorance “Was the fruit of his own endeavour; “With foreign wisdom and training he “Had injured his intellect never.

“From abstract philosophy’s influence he “Kept likewise his thoughts and his spirit “Entirely free.--Himself he remain’d! “Yes, Kobes has really his merit!

“The tear of the usual stereotype form “In his beautiful eye is gleaming, “And from his lips incessantly “The grossest stupidity’s streaming.

“He prates and he grins, and he grins and prates, “His words with long ears are provided; “A pregnant woman who heard him speak “Gave birth to a donkey decided.

“With scribbling books and knitting he’s wont “His idle hours to flavour; “The stockings that he with his own hands knit “Have met with particular favour.

“To devote himself wholly to knitting he’s begg’d “By Apollo and all the Muses; “They’re frighten’d whenever they see that his hand “A goose-quill laboriously uses.

“His knitting recals the olden time “Of the Funken,[91]--who all stood knitting “While mounting guard,--these men of Cologne “No means of amusement omitting.

“If Kobes is Emp’ror, he’ll surely recal “To life these Funken deserving; “The valiant band will surround his throne, “As the guard imperial serving.

“He well might be glad to go at their head, “And march over France’s borders, “And Alsace, Lorraine, and Burgundy fair “Bring under Germany’s orders.

“Yet be not afraid, at home he’ll remain, “Intent on a scheme long suspended, “A lofty idea, the completion, in fact, “Of Cologne Cathedral so splendid.

“But when the Cathedral’s quite complete, “Then Kobes will get in a passion, “And sword in hand, will bring the French “To account in a regular fashion.

“He’ll take Alsace and Lorraine away “(By France from the empire estreated); “To Burgundy, too, he’ll triumphantly go, “When once the Cathedral’s completed.

“Ye Germans, pray lose not your senses quite, “If an Emperor’s needed, I’ll name him; “The Carnival King of Cologne let it be, “As Kobes the First now proclaim him!

“The fools of the Carnival rout at Cologne, “With caps and bells ringing and mocking, “Shall be his ministers of state, “His scutcheon a knitted stocking.

“Let Drickes be Chancellor, calling himself “Count Drickes of Drickeshausen, “And Marizebill the Mistress of State, “With the Emperor fondly carousing.[92]

“Within his good sacred town of Cologne “Will be Kobes’s habitation; “And when the Cologners hear the glad news, “They’ll have an illumination.

“The bells, the iron dogs of the air, “Into joyous barks will be breaking, “And the three holy kings from the land of the East “In their chapel will soon be awaking.

“They’ll step outside with their clattering bones, “All dancing with rapture and springing; “I hear them the Hallelujah’s strains “And Kyrie Eleison singing.”--

Thus spoke the dread white nightly ghost With loud uproarious laughter; Through all the resounding halls of the place The echo rang wildly long after.

13. EPILOGUE.

Graves they say are warm’d by glory; Foolish words and empty story! Better far the warmth we prove From a cow-girl deep in love, With her arms around us flung, Reeking with the smell of dung. And that warmth is better too That man’s entrails pierces through When he drinks hot punch and wine, Or his fill of grog divine, In the vilest, meanest den ’Mongst the thieves and scum of men, Who escape the gallows daily, But who breathe and live all-gaily, With as enviable fate As e’en Thetis’ son so great.-- Rightly did Pelides say: Living in the meanest way In the upper world’s worth more, Than beside the Stygian shore King of shades to be; a hero Such as Homer sang is zero.

_ADDENDA TO THE POEMS._[93]

THE SONG OF SONGS.

Fair woman’s body is a song Inscribed by our great Maker In Nature’s mighty album erst, When moved to life to wake her.

Ah yes! propitious was the hour When thus he show’d compassion! The coy rebellious stuff he work’d In true artistic fashion.

Yes, woman’s body is, ’mongst songs, The song most sweet and tender, And wondrous strophes are her limbs, So snowy-white and slender.

And then her neck, her glistening neck,-- O what a godlike notion!-- Where the main thought, her little head, Rocks with a graceful motion.

Like polish’d epigrams one loves Her bosom’s rosebuds dearly; Enchanting the cæsura is That parts her breasts severely.

The song has flesh, ribs, hands, and feet, No abstract poem this is! With lips that rhyme deliciously It smiles and sweetly kisses.

True poetry is breathing here, Grace shines in each direction; The song upon its forehead bears The stamp of all perfection.

I’ll praise thee, Lord, and in the dust Will humbly kneel to show it; Bunglers are we, compared with thee, Thou glorious heavenly Poet.

Before the splendour of thy song I’ll bow in adoration, And to its study day and night Pay closest application.

Yes, day and night I’ll study it, No loss of time admitting; So shall I soon with overwork Be thinner than befitting.

THE SUTTLER’S SONG.

(From the Thirty Years’ War.)

The brave hussars I dearly love, I love each gallant fellow; Without distinction I love them all, The blue as well as the yellow.

The musketeers I dearly love, I love the musketeers, too; The officers, privates, and recruits, And those of older years too.

The infantry and cavalry-- I love the brave fellows sincerely; And then the artillery,--one and all, I love them truly and dearly.

I love the Germans, I love the French, I love the Italians and Dutchmen; I love the Bohemians, Spaniards, and Swedes, I love both many and much men.

Whatever may be his native land, Whatever his faith or persuasion, Provided a man is sound in health, I love him on ev’ry occasion.

Religion and country are nothing more Than his outside clothing,--God bless him. Away with his cov’ring, that I to my heart May fondly and warmly press him!

A mortal am I, and only too glad With any mortal to dally; And as for the man who can’t pay on the spot, For him I keep a tally.

The garland green in front of my tent In the light of the sun smiles gaily, And I am now drinking malmsey wine From a fresh-open’d barrel daily.

POSTHUMOUS POEMS.

HORSE AND ASS.

A train was rushing along one day, With carriages, engine, and tender; The chimney vomited forth its smoke, Like a dashing old offender.

The train pass’d a farmyard, and over the hedge A grey horse, at the sound of the whistle, Stretch’d out his head; an ass stood by, Demurely chewing a thistle.

With wondering gaze the horse long stared At the train; then strangely quivering In every limb, he sigh’d, and said: “The sight has set me a-shivering!

“I’m sure that if I by nature had been “A chesnut, or black, or bay horse, “My skin with the fright its colour would change, “And make me (as now) a grey horse.

“The equestrian race is doom’d, beyond doubt, “To be swept away in fate’s eddy; “Although I’m a grey horse, I cannot but see “A black future before me already.

“The competition of these machines “Will certainly kill us poor horses; “For riding and driving will man prefer “Iron steeds, if so great their force is.

“And if man can get on without our help, “Alike for riding and driving, “Good-bye to our oats, good-bye to our hay “What chance have we of surviving?

“The heart of man is hard as a stone, “He gives away nothing gratis; “They’ll drive us out of our stables, and we “Shall starve--what a cruel fate ’tis!

“We cannot borrow and cannot steal “Like mortals whose natures are blacker; “We cannot fawn like men and dogs, “But shall fall a prey to the knacker.”

Thus grumbled the horse, and deeply sigh’d,-- Meanwhile the ass hard by him Had quietly chew’d two thistle-tops, As if nothing could terrify him.

He presently answer’d in dainty tones, With his tongue first licking his muzzle: “With what the future may have in store, “My brains I shall not puzzle.

“You horses proud are threaten’d, no doubt, “By a future that’s far from pleasant; “But we modest asses are not afraid “Of dangers future or present.

“That grey horses, and chesnut, and piebald, and black, “May be done without, true, alas! is; “But Mister Steam, with his chimney long, “Can never replace us asses.

“However clever may be the machines “Made by man with his senses besotted, “The ass as his portion will always have “Sure means of existence allotted.

“Its asses will Heaven, I’m sure, ne’er desert, “Who, moved by a calm sense of duty, “Turn the mill every day, as their fathers have done,-- “A sight not deficient in beauty.

“The mill-wheel clatters, the miller works hard, “The meal in the sack well shaking, “And people eat their bread and their rolls, “As soon as they’ve finished the baking.

“In Nature’s old-fashion’d and jogtrot way “The world will keep spinning for ever; “And as changeless even as Nature herself, “The ass will alter never.”

* * * * *

MORAL.

Gone are the days of chivalry, And the proud steed must hungry be; But L----, the ass, I boldly say, Will never want his oats and hay.

THE ASS-ELECTION.

Being tired of freedom for some time past The beasts’ republic decided To be with a single ruler at last As its absolute head provided.

Each kind of beast prepared for the strife, Electoral billets were written; Intrigues on every side were rife, With party zeal all were bitten.

By long-ear’d gentry at its head The asses’ committee was aided; Cockades, whose colours were black, gold, and red,[94] They boastfully paraded.

A small party there was of friends of the horse, Who yet were afraid of voting, So greatly they dreaded the outcry coarse The long-ear’d party denoting.

But when one of them ventured the horse to name As a candidate, greater and greater Wax’d the noise, and an old long-ear, to his shame, Shouted out “Thou art only a traitor.

“A traitor art thou, in thy veins doth not flow “One drop of asses’ blood proper; “No ass art thou, and I almost know “That a foreign mare was thy dropper!

“From the zebra perchance thou art sprung; thy striped hide “Quite answers the zebra’s description; “The nasal twang of thy voice is allied “To the Hebrew as well as Egyptian.

“And if not a stranger, thou art, thou must own, “A dull ass, of an intellect paltry; “The depths of ass-nature to thee are unknown “Thou hear’st not its mystical psalt’ry.

“But with sweet stupefaction my soul drinks in “That sound which all others surpasses; “An ass am I, and each hair in the skin “Of my tail the hair of an ass is.

“I am not a Papist, I am not a slave, “A German ass am I solely; “The same as my fathers, who all were so brave, “So thoughtful, demure, and so holy.

“They were not addicted to doing ill, “Or practising gallantry gaily; “But trotted off with the sack to the mill “In frolicsome fashion daily.

“Our fathers still live. In the tomb only lie “Their skins, their mortal covering; “Their happy spirits, high up in the sky, “Complacently o’er us are hovering.

“Ye glorified asses, ye need not doubt “That we fain would resemble you ever, “And from the path that duty points out “We’ll swerve a finger’s breadth never.

“O what a delight an ass to be, “From such long-ear’d worthies descended! “From every house-top I’d fain shout with glee: “‘An ass I was born--how splendid!’

“The noble jackass who gave me birth “Was of genuine German extraction; “From my mother, a German ass of worth, “My milk suck’d I with great satisfaction.

“An ass am I, and fully intend, “Like my fathers who now are departed, “To stand by the asses, yes, stand to the end “By the asses so dear and true-hearted.

“And since I’m an ass, I advise you all round “To choose your king from the asses; “A mighty ass-kingdom we thus will found, “They being the governing classes.

“We all are asses. Hee-ha! Hee-ha! “As ostlers we will not demean us; “Away with the horses! Long live, hurrah, “The king of the asinine genus!”

Thus spake the patriot. Through the hall The asses cheer’d him proudly; They all, in fact, were national, And with their hoofs stamp’d loudly.

An oaken wreath on the orator’s head They put as a decoration; He wagg’d his tail (though nothing he said) With evident gratification.

BERTHA.

She seem’d so gentle, she seem’d so good, An angel I thought my lover; She wrote the dearest letters to me, With kindness teeming all over.

The wedding was very soon to take place, Her relations heard this by dozens; My Bertha was a silly thing, For she listen’d to aunts and cousins.

She kept not her word, she broke her oath, And yet I have been forgiving; Had I married her first, I ne’er should have known Either pleasure or love while living.

When I of a faithless woman think, I think of Bertha the faithless; The only wish I have left, is that she May pass through her confinement scatheless.

IN THE CATHEDRAL.

Before me the sexton’s daughter fair Through the sacred edifice skippèd; Her size was small, and light her hair, From her neck her kerchief had slippèd.

In the old cathedral for sixpence I got A sight of its marvellous creatures, Its tombs, lights, crosses; I turn’d quite hot When I gazed on Elspeth’s features.

And once again I stared about At the sacred relics entrancing; In their under-petticoats all trick’d out, On the window the women were dancing.

The sexton’s little daughter fair Stood by me, while thus I inspected. She had a very pretty pair Of eyes, wherein all was reflected.

Before me the sexton’s daughter fair From the sacred edifice skippèd; Her mouth was small, her neck was bare, From her bosom her kerchief had slippèd.

THE DRAGONFLY.

The dragonfly blue’s all the fashion In beetle-land, in the present day; The butterflies their addresses pay To the beauty with amorous passion.

Her hips are excessively slender, She wears a gauze dress of delicate hue, With very symmetrical movements too She flutters about in splendour.

Her colour’d admirers hover In her train, and many a young gallant Thus swears: “I’ll Holland give, and Brabant “If thou wilt be my lover.”

She answers (but how insincerely!): “Brabant and Holland are nothing to me, “I want but a spark of light, to see “In my little chamber clearly.”

When she imposes this duty, Her lovers hasten to join in the race, And eagerly seek, from place to place, A spark of light for the beauty.

As soon as one sees a taper, He blindly rushes on to his doom, And the cruel flames the victim consume, And his loving heart, like paper.

* * * * *

It comes from Japan, this fable, Yet even in Germany, my dear child, Are plenty of dragonflies, devilish wild, Perfidious, and unstable.

OLD SCENTS.

The nosegay Matilda twined for me, And smilingly offer’d entreatingly, I push’d away, o’erpower’d completely By the sight of the flowers that blossom’d so sweetly.

At the scent of the flowers, my tears fast flow,-- I feel that in all this fair world below, Its beauty, sunlight, joy, love are bereft me, And nought but its bitter tears are left me.

They tell me that I no longer share A part in life and its circle fair, That I belong to death’s kingdom dreary, Yes, I, a corpse unburied and weary.

How happy was I when erst I saw The dance of rats at the Opera! But now I hear the odious scuffling Of churchyard rats and grave-moles shuffling.

The scent of the flowers recalls again A perfect ballet, a joyous train Of recollections perfumed and glowing, From the hidden depths of the past o’erflowing,

To sound of cornet and castanet, In spangled dresses (full short, I regret),-- Yet all their toying, each laugh, each titter, Can only render my thoughts more bitter.

Away with the flowers! O, how I abhor The scent that maliciously tells once more Of days long vanish’d and hours of gladness-- I weep at the thought with speechless sadness.

MISERERE.

The sons of Fortune I envy not For their lives, in pleasure vying, I envy them only their happy death, Their easy and painless dying.

In gala dresses, with garlanded heads, Their lips in laughter extended, They joyously sit at the banquet of life,-- The sickle falls,--all is ended!

In festal attire, with roses adorn’d, Still blooming with life, these glad mortals, These fav’rites of fortune reach at last The shadowy realm’s dark portals.

They ne’er were disfigured by fever’s attack, They die with a joyous demeanour, And gladly are welcomed at her sad court By Proserpine, hell’s Czarina.

O how I envy a fate like theirs! Seven years I daily languish For death, as on the ground I writhe In bitter and speechless anguish.

O God! my agony shorten, that I May be buried,--my sole ambition. Thou knowest that I no talent possess For filling a martyr’s position.

I feel astonished, gracious Lord, At a course so unconsequential; Thou madest a joyous poet, without That joy that is so essential.

My torments blunt each feeling of mirth, And melancholy make me; Unless I get better ere long, to the faith Of a Catholic I must betake me.

Like other good Christians, I then shall howl In thine ears my wailings dreary-- The best of humorists then will be lost For ever--O Miserere.

TO MATILDA.

I was, dear lamb, ordain’d to be A shepherd here, to watch o’er thee; I nourish’d thee with mine own bread, With water from the fountain head.

And when the winter storm roar’d loudly, Against my breast I warm’d thee proudly; There held I thee encircled well Whilst rain in torrents round us fell; When, through its rocky dark bed pouring The torrent, with the wolf, was roaring, Thou feared’st not, no muscle quiver’d, E’en when the highest pine was shiver’d By the fork’d flash--within mine arm Thou slept’st in peace without alarm.

My arm grows weak, and fast draws near Pale death! My shepherd’s task so dear, And pastoral care approach their end. Into Thy hands, God, I commend My staff once more. O do Thou guard My lamb, when I beneath the sward Am laid in peace, and suffer ne’er A thorn to prick her anywhere.

From thorny hedges guard her fleece, May quagmires ne’er disturb her peace, May there spring up beneath her feet An ample crop of pasture sweet, And let her sleep without alarm, As erst she slept within mine arm!

FOR THE “MOUCHE.”[95]

I had a dream. It was a summer’s night, And in the moonlight, pale and weatherbeaten, Lay buildings, relics of past ages bright,-- The style, renaissant, of these wrecks time-eaten.

And here and there, with stately Doric head, Rose single columns from the mass there lying, And on the firmament high o’er them spread Gazed they, as if its thunderbolts defying.

In broken fragments lay there on the ground, Mingled with many a portal, many a gable, Sculptures where man, beast, centaur, sphinx were found, Chimera, satyr,--creatures of old fable.

The contrasts there presented were grotesque, The emblems of Judæa’s God combining With Grecian grace, in fashion arabesque The ivy round them both, its tendrils twining.

A fair sarcophagus of marble white Amid the ruins stood, unmutilated; And in the coffin lay a corpse in sight, Of features mild, with sadness penetrated.

The power supporting it appear’d supplied By Caryatides, with necks extended; And many a bas-relief on either side Was seen, of chisell’d figures strangely blended.

The glories of Olympus there saw I, With all its heathen deities misguided; Adam and Eve were there, decorously With figleaf aprons round their loins provided.

Troy’s taking and Troy’s burning here were seen, Hector and Helen, Paris (that wild gay man); Moses and Aaron also stood between, With Esther, Judith, Holofernes, Haman.

God Amor also had his place hard by, Phœbus, Apollo, Vulcan, Madam Venus, Pluto, Proserpina, and Mercury, God Bacchus, and Priapus, and Silenus.

Likewise was Balaam’s ass omitted not,-- (The ass for speaking seem’d, in fact, created), And Abraham’s temptation too, and Lot, Who by his daughters was intoxicated.

Herodias’ daughter’s dance was shown as well, The Baptist’s head was in the charger given; The monster Satan too was there, and hell, And Peter, with the heavy keys of heaven.

And next in order saw I sculptured there The loves of Jove, with his vile actions blending; How as a swan he ravish’d Leda fair, And Danaë, in golden shower descending.

The wild hunt of Diana was display’d, With her fleet dogs, and nymphs attired so trimly; And Hercules, in woman’s clothes array’d, Distaff on arm, the spindle whirling nimbly.

And next was Sinai’s mountain to be view’d, And Israel near it, with his oxen lowing; The Lord a child within the temple stood, Disputing with the doctors proud and knowing.

But, strange to tell, when I had dreamily These forms a while observed, in thought suspended, I suddenly conceived myself to be The corpse, in that fair marble tomb extended.

And at the head of this my grave there stood A flower full fair, of strange configuration; Its leaves were yellow-tinged and violet-hued, The flower possess’d a wondrous fascination.

’Tis by the name of passion-flower well known, On Golgotha, they say, ’twas first created The day they crucified God’s only Son, And the Redeemer’s body lacerated.

Bloodwitness doth this flower now bear, they say; Each instrument of torture then invented And used at His sad martyrdom that day, Is in its calyx duly represented.

Yes! every passion-attribute adorns The flower, each emblem of their cruel malice,-- For instance, scourge and rope and crown of thorns, The hammer and the nails, the cross, the chalice.

Such was the flower which at my grave did stand, And o’er my body bending with compassion, As with a woman’s sorrow, kiss’d my hand, My eyes, and forehead, in sad silent fashion.

But O, my dream’s strange magic! Wondrously The passion-flower, the yellow-hued and rare one, Changed to a woman’s likeness,--ah! and she, She was my loved one, she was mine own fair one!

Thou wert the flower, yes, thou, my darling child! At once I knew thee by thy kisses yearning; No lips of flowers so tender are and mild, No tears of flowers so fiery are and burning.

Although mine eyes were closed, my spirit gazed With steadiness upon thy face entrancing; Thou look’dst at me with raptured look amazed, Strangely illumined in the moonlight glancing.

No words we spake, and yet my heart could see The thoughts that in thy mind in silence hover’d; A word when spoken has no modesty, By silence is love’s modest blossoms cover’d.

Voiceless our converse! Wondrous doth it seem How in our silent, tender conversation The time pass’d in that summer night’s fair dream, When joy commingled was with consternation.

That which we spoke of then, ne’er seek to learn, The glow-worm ask, why in the grass it gloweth, The torrent, why it roareth in the burn, The west wind, why it waileth as it bloweth.

Ask the carbuncle why it gleams so bright, The rose and violet, why so sweetly scented; But ask not what, beneath the moon’s soft light, The martyr-flower talk’d with her love lamented!

I cannot tell how long it was that I Enjoy’d, as in the marble tomb I slumber’d, That beauteous, happy dream. It fleeted by, Too soon the moments of my rest were number’d.

Death with thy gravelike silence! Thou alone Canst give us pleasure in a lasting fashion; Vain barbarous life, for joy is ever known To give us restless bliss, convulsive passion.

Alas, alas! my happiness soon fled, For suddenly arose a noise exciting, It was a savage conflict, fierce and dread-- Ah, my poor flower was scared by all this fighting!

Yes! there arose outside, with hideous yell, A quarrelling, a yelping, and a scolding; Methought that many a voice I knew full well,-- It was the bas-reliefs my tomb enfolding!

Is the stone haunted by those visions wan? And are those marble phantoms all disputing? The fearful clamour of the wood-god Pan, Moses’s fierce anathemas confuting.

Alas! this contest ne’er will ended be, The True and Beautiful will wrangle ever! Greeks and Barbarians in wild rivalry The ranks of man are always doom’d to sever.

They cursed and raved. No end would there have been To this long squabble, and their passion towering, Had Balaam’s ass not come upon the scene, The voices of the gods and saints o’erpowering.

The stupid beast, with his disgusting brag, That sobbing sound of sheer abomination, Made me cry out in terrible dismay, And I awoke at last in desperation.

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[1] I believe that a translation of one of Heine’s works--his “Book of Songs”--was published in this country a few years ago, but I have not met with it. An American version of the “Pictures of Travel” also appeared in 1855.

[2] One of the finest in the collection, “The Grenadiers,” which is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of Béranger, was written as early as 1815, when Heine was not sixteen years old, and before Béranger had written his analogous poems “Le Vieux Drapeau,” “Le Vieux Sergent,” &c.

[3] The Arminius of Tacitus.

[4] A suburb of Frankfort, on the further side of the Main.

[5] German _litterateurs_ of more or less note.

[6] In the original, _Hell_ and _Kind_, well-known writers. It is necessary to translate the names for the sake of the pun.

[7] The word “Gimpel” in the original has the double meaning of “bullfinch” and “blockhead,” and the point of this verse is therefore lost in a translation.

[8] See Heine’s Tragedy of that name.

[9] The Hindoo god corresponding to Cupid.

[10] Spring.

[11] The eminent Professor and Editor of Hegel’s works. He died in 1839.

[12] It is with real hesitation that I publish this lame and impotent conclusion to a legend the first two parts of which are in Heine’s best style.

[13] The three following verses are extracted by Heine _verbatim_ from Schiller’s well-known “Lament of Ceres.” The version of them here given is taken from the translation of Schiller’s Poems published by me in 1851.

[14] Names for the three royal houses of Prussia, Austria, and Bavaria.

[15] See the account of the old Drum-Major Le Grand contained in the prose section of Heine’s “Pictures of Travel,” entitled “Book Le Grand.”

[16] A well-known republican poet and writer, born at Stuttgardt; at one time caressed, and afterwards banished, by the King of Prussia. He took an active part in the political troubles of 1848.

[17] See Schiller’s Play of “Don Carlos.”

[18] Evidently a satire on the King of Prussia.

[19] A famous theological writer, who died in 1850, at the age of ninety. He was formerly Counsellor of the Consistory (_Kirchenrath_) at Würzburg, and for many years Professor of Church History, &c. at Heidelberg.

[20] A polite allusion to the late King of Bavaria and his Walhalla.

[21] This refers to a poem of Freiligrath’s, entitled “The Dead to the Living,” for which he was prosecuted, but acquitted, in 1848.

[22] A hill close to Berlin.

[23] I have here attempted to imitate a wretched pun in the original.

[24] A “blind passenger” means in German a person who travels without paying his fare.

[25] Berlin.

[26] It will be remembered that the sun is feminine in German.

[27] Edward Gans, a distinguished German professor, and pupil of Hegel, whose works he edited. He died in 1839.

[28] One section of the famous Bremen Cellar is called the Rose, and is said to contain hock of between two and three centuries old. Another part is called the Apostles’ Cellar, and has in it twelve vats, known as the Twelve Apostles, also full of very old wine.

[29] See Freiligrath’s Poems.

[30] Well-known German writers.

[31] A race not unlike the _Crétins_.

[32] Shakespear.

[33] Alluding to the large number of petty states into which Germany is divided.

[34] A well-known poet and physician, born in 1786, and founder of the so-called Modern Swabian School of Poetry.

[35] A voluminous writer, born at Stuttgardt in 1807. He attacked Heine’s School of Poetry, and was repaid by Heine in the same coin.

[36] See Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti.”

[37] See the concluding words of the last scene but one of the above play.

[38] See the end of Schiller’s “Gods of Greece.”

[39] This refers to the time of Heine’s residence in Berlin, when he was intimate with these and other well-known personages. See Sketch of his Life, _ante_.

[40] The slightly irregular metre of this fine poem is a close copy of the original.

[41] A popular German poet, born in 1798, who was deprived of his professorship in the University of Breslau, in 1842, for publishing a volume entitled “Unpolitical Songs.”

[42] The last four verses were erased by the censors from the original edition.

[43] A famous theologian, poet, and orator, and one of Luther’s chief followers. He died in 1523.

[44] A Dominican friar, who was one of Luther’s first antagonists.

[45] The first edition ended with this verse, which was struck out by the censors, and replaced by the five following verses.

[46] The remains of John of Leyden and his two chief accomplices were exposed in these cages, which still remain in their old position.

[47] A youthful poet, who excited great enthusiasm in Germany by a poem, written in 1840 (when a war with France on the Eastern question seemed not unlikely), beginning,--

“They shall not have the German Rhine.”

[48] The well-known French poet, who replied to the above poem of Becker’s, by another commencing,--

“We have had your German Rhine.”

[49] A noted theologian, born in 1802, and one of the leaders of the orthodox party in Prussia.

[50] Called Arminius by the Romans.

[51] The famous historian and professor of theology at Berlin. He died in 1850.

[52] A well-known actress and voluminous dramatic author, born in 1800.

[53] The historian.

[54] A professor of gymnastics.

[55] A linguist and professor of languages and gymnastics jointly. In the latter science he was a pupil of Jahn.

[56] A monument has been recently erected in Dettmoldt to commemorate the victory of Arminius over Varus.

[57] A poetess of some reputation, who died in 1791. Her granddaughter, Helmine Chezy, born in 1783, was also well known as a poetess and romance writer.

[58] The great composer Mendelssohn was grandson to the famous philosopher of that name.

[59] The rest of this chapter was erased by the censors from the original edition.

[60] The great fire at Hamburg took place in May, 1842, or shortly before this poem was written.

[61] A nickname of a relation of Heine’s.

[62] A leading publisher at Hamburg, employed by Heine to publish many of his works.

[63] A noted critic, poet, and historian, born in 1798. He had literary quarrels with both Heine and Börne.

[64] For the full particulars of this story see Herodotus, Book II. c. 121.

[65] The French author.

[66] Carnival masks.

[67] Or Valkyriors; a race of martial virgins, described in northern mythology as riding in the air and fighting under Odin.

[68] This poem was formerly suppressed by the censors.

[69] This poem was originally suppressed by the censors.

[70] Meaning the founder of the Teutonic race.

[71] A noted brigand, executed in 1803.

[72] A Polish term of endearment.

[73] This poem was originally suppressed by the censors.

[74] A poet and writer, born in 1816, and persecuted by the police for his liberal writings.

[75] An ancient Hebrew word for _Almighty_.

[76] A Hebrew word for _Lord_.

[77] Doubtless John Martin is here meant.

[78] A recent poet of no great reputation. He was the joint editor of the “Rhine Annual” with Freiligrath and Simrock.

[79] The famous philosopher, who at one time resided in Munich.

[80] The eminent painter, who decorated the Glyptothek and Pinacothek at Munich. He was afterwards Director of the Berlin Academy.

[81] One of Hutten’s well-known works was entitled “Epistolae Obscurorum Vivorum.”

[82] This poem recounts the untimely fate of a playmate, who was drowned when trying to save a kitten. See Heine’s _Reisebilder_,