Haucht Gerüche! Fliehet Handlungssorgen,
Dass mein Liebster heute noch in Ruh
Sein Mark-Einsaz-Lomber spiele—Morgen,
Schliessen wir die Unglücksbude zu!”
A passage at the end of the appendix to the twelfth Reisebrief is further indication of his opposition to and his contempt for the frenzy of German sentimentalism.
The poems of Goeckingk contain allusions[30] to Sterne, to be sure partly indistinctive and insignificant, which, however, tend in the main to a ridicule of the Yorick cult and place their author ultimately among the satirical opponents of sentimentalism. In the “Epistel an Goldhagen in Petershage,” 1771, he writes:
“Doch geb ich wohl zu überlegen,
Was für den Weisen besser sey:
Die Welt wie Yorick mit zu nehmen?
Nach Königen, wie Diogen,