The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

Hope is born, and not made,

And the heart finds its treasure

In the light, in the shade;

This is time and life’s measure.”—Tr.

[286] R. M. Meyer records the refrain as a survival from the first beginning of poetry. Ueber die Refrain, Zeitschr. f. vgl. Literaturgeschichte, vol. i (1887), p. 44.

[287] See Minor, Neuhochdeutsche Metrik, pp. 393, 460.

[288] See Minor, Neuhochdeutsche Metrik, pp. 393, 460.

[289] Grasberger, p. 46. For other forms of this game see Gutsmuths, p. 377.

[290] “The third year,” says Sully, “is epoch-making in the history of memory. It is now that impressions begin to work themselves into the young consciousness so deeply and firmly that they become a part of the permanent stock in trade of the mind.”—Studies of Childhood, p. 437.

[291] Sonntagsbeilage zur Vossischen Zeitung, January 10, 1897.