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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany

Note 10 — VI YOUNG GERMANY (continued 7)

Mary Morison translation

You know the meaning of these marks? You would never dream of erasing them—four innocent little marks of interrogation? Yet they strike deep root, they mount towards heaven, like the oak, the emblem of the great, free German nation. You have done your best to annihilate them throughout your wide realms, but they persistently appear again, these four little marks of interrogation.... In years to come, when you are dead, there will stand as sign and symbol on your monument—four little marks of interrogation.

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