Diesen Traum vom Krieg der Froesch' und Maeuse,
Dieses Lebens Jahrmarktsdudelei.]

[Footnote 37: Bulwer's translation, which is here particularly good.]

[Footnote 38:

"Out from their bounds swell nerve, and pulse, and sense,
The veins in tumult would their shores o'erflow;
Body to body rapt--and, charmed thence,
Soul drawn to soul with intermingled glow."
--_Bulwer's Translation_.]

[Footnote 39:

"And therefore came to me the wish to woo thee--
Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee;
_This_ made thy glances to my soul the link--
_This_ made me burn thy very breath to drink--
My life in thine to sink."
--_Bulwer's Translation, _]

[Footnote 40: Concerning the provenience and the philosophic connection
of the youthful Schiller's ideas of love and friendship the reader will
do well to consult Kuno Fischer, "Schiller-Schriften", I, 41 ff.]

[Footnote 41: Of course this roseate statement to his Highness took no
account of his debts, which had not yet begun to be particularly
pressing.]