[172] Museum (home of the muses) is the beautiful German name for
it.--TR.
[173] _Kopf-und Ohr-hängerei._ Hanging down of head (hypocrisy)
and ears.--TR.
[174] This self-resounding--as the Æolian-harp [_riesen-harfe_,
giant-harp, in German.--TR.], when the weather changes, sounds
without a touch--is common in sick-headache and other maladies of
weakness; hence in dying; for instance, in Jacob Boehme, life,
like a concert-clock, rung out its hours amidst surrounding
harmonies.
[175] Some disinterested love or other must from eternity have
existed. As there are eternal truths, so must there also be an
eternal love.
[176] For the same reason, perhaps, that the poet does not see
his, so often and distinctly beheld, creations pass in his dreams
among the images of the day.
[177] For on his and her sacrament-day he had imagined her death
by lightning.
[178] The winter stock-jelliflower.
[179] Jean Paul's second volume ends here.--TR.