Schubert set some of this poem to music. A fact you will remember when you read it in school.
Perhaps you could remember at the same time that Scott was a little older than Schubert and just one year younger than Beethoven.
Beethoven lived in Vienna at that time and Schubert with two friends went to see him. Beethoven was very deaf, and those who met him had to write down what they wanted to say with a large pencil, such as is used by carpenters. Schubert was so modest and nervous upon meeting the great master that he could not even write his replies.
Here is the picture of the way Beethoven looked as he walked down the street in those days:
BEETHOVEN IN VIENNA.
Once when Schubert was very ill a friend sent him some books to read. They were The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, The Pilot, and The Pioneer.
Now these books were written by the American author, whose name you must find for yourself.
SCHUBERT'S WORK ROOM.