Note 1 — Chapter XIV · Prince Hohenlohe—Political Frictions
Ethel Harriet Hearn translation
The following may be mentioned as a characteristic example of this feeling:—The north German poet, Emanuel Geibel, was summoned by Maximilian I. to the Bavarian court. He had been appointed to the chair of literature, history, and poetry at the University of Munich, and the King had granted him a yearly pension. At the time here mentioned he was staying in his native town of Lubeck. King Wilhelm of Prussia came on a visit to the town, and Geibel welcomed him with the following verse:—