Note 1 — From ‘Discourses of the Painters,’ Part I, No. 19; Importance of the Imagination.
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Lines 24 ff. Klopstock here follows John xii, making Jesus ‘hide himself’ from the palm-strewing people before entering the city gate.
2. Säuseln; the ‘still small voice’ of I Kings xix, 12.
3. Wandelndes = fortwandelndes, ‘continuing.’
4. Abgrunds; the ‘pit’ of hell, where the imprisoned fathers are waiting to be released.
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