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.
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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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FOOTNOTES:
[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_,
chapter vi.
[83] A parody on the beginning of Schiller’s “Hymn to Joy.”
[84] See also this story in Book I. of the “Romancero,” p. 411.
[85] Meyerbeer.
[86] The famous composer, whose real name was Beer.
[87] See Book II. of “Romancero.”
[88] The tutelar goddess of Hamburg. See Heine’s “Germany.”
[89] Liszt.
[90] The hero of this story is the well-known Swabian poet George
Herwegh.
[91] Funken (or Sparks) was the name given to the soldiers of Cologne
before the Revolution, who used to knit when on guard.
[92] Drickes and Marizebill are popular masks at the Carnival at
Cologne.
[93] These two poems were first published in the _Musenaumanach_ for
1854.
[94] The national colours of Germany.
[95] This was the nickname of a young lady whose acquaintance Heine
made towards the end of his life, who attended him in his last
illness, and for whom he felt a strong affection. The present poem was
the last composition of Heine, and was written only two or three weeks
before his death. It is undoubtedly one of the finest of his works.
End of Project Gutenberg's The poems of Heine; Complete, by Heinrich Heine