Note 41 — To Fanny Hensel, Berlin.
Grace Wallace translation
It is characteristic of both, that Mendelssohn’s sister set the following poem of Goethe’s to music:—
“Here are we then, my friend, at home once more! And tranquilly reclines the artist’s eye On scenes of peace and love from door to door, Where life to life in kindliness draws nigh. “Back with our household gods, here are we then! For though through distant regions we may roam, From all these ravishments we turn again Back to the magic sphere we call our home.”