TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE NICHOLAS TRUBNER

This Work is Dedicated
by
Charles G. Leland

This Project Gutenberg Edition is dedicated to:

Poul and Karen Anderson without whose inspiration it would not exist.

Geoff Kidd
Krista Rourke

Ad Musan.
"Est mihi schoena etenim et praestanti corpore liebsta
Haec sola est mea Musa meoque regierit in Herza.
Huic me ergebo ipsum meaque illi abstatto geluebda,
Huic ebrensaulas aufrichto opfroque Geschenka,
Hic etiam absingo liedros et carmina scribo."

Rapsodia Andra, Leipzig, 17th Century