In new things they delight.

APPENDIX III.

In the account of the Dies Irae, on [page 250], there is a reference to the following poem by Jsu-Justus Kerner, the Swabian poet and mystic, which I find translated among Mr. Duffield’s papers:

THE FOUR CRAZED BROTHERS.

Shrivelled into corpselike thinness

Four within the madhouse sit;

From their pallid lips no sentence

Tells of either sense or wit.

Starkly there they face each other,

Each more gloomy than his brother.