Note 6 — From ‘Discourses of the Painters,’ Part I, No. 19; Importance of the Imagination.
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The ode dates from 1748. Fanny Schmidt was a young woman whose indifference to Klopstock’s devotion threw him back on the hope of a union in heaven.
7. Jünglingsträne; tears of high poetic aspiration.
8. Beglückteren, ‘more blest’ with this world’s goods.