[118]: One took the silver thread rising and falling in arcs for one continuous rill trickling downward; but the arcs of several diagonally leaping fountains were set at such distances, that one became a continuation of the other.
[119]: A term for the ear-flaps.—Tr.
[120]: In the moonlight, plants secrete oxygen gas or vital air.
[121]: Third in German,—the musical division of time, not however used in our common arithmetical tables.—Tr.
[122]: Remember the Author's "Recollections of Life's fairest Hours against the last."—Tr.
[123]: "Sea-wonders" is the German expression.—Tr.
[124]: The translator feels how much he has sacrificed of the simplicity of the language in this song, in endeavoring to keep the rhyme and the silvery rhythm.
[125]: "Nerve-worm," literally.—Tr.
[126]: Pascal.