Note 15 — APPENDIX SONGS OF PRINCE FREE-AS-A-BIRD

This poem is a parody of the "Chorus Mysticus" which concludes the second part of Goethe's "Faust." Bayard Taylor's translation of the passage in "Faust" runs as follows:—

"All things transitory

But as symbols are sent,

Earth's insufficiency

Here grows to Event:

The Indescribable

Here it is done:

The Woman-Soul leadeth us

Upward and on!"