Note 44 — TO A GOLDEN HEART WORN ROUND THE NECK.[44]

Gœthe says, "A little golden heart, which I had received from Lili in those fairy hours, still hung by the same little chain to which she had fastened it, love-warmed, about my neck. I seized hold of it—kissed it." This was the occasion of these lines. The poet now was separated from Lili, and striving to forget her in journeying about.—ED.