The red leaves, while broad in the east a moon
Swings full of frost a lustrous globe of gleams,
Faint on the mooning hills as shapes in dreams.
DER FREISCHUTZ.
Es gibt im Menschenleben Augenblicke,
Wo er dem Weltgeist näher ist als sonst.—Schiller.
HE? why, a tall Franconian strong and young,
Brown as a walnut the first frost hath hulled;
A soul of full endeavor powerful
Bound in lithe limbs, knit into grace and strength