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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866

Note B — FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT.

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The reader may be curious to see how smoothly and naturally these dactyls (so forced in the translation) flow in the original:—

"Aus der staubigen Residenz, In den laubigen Frischen Lenz— Aus dem tosenden Gassenschwall Zu dem kosenden Wasserfall,— Wer sich rettete, Dank's dem Glück, Wie mich bettete Mein Geschick!"

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