18. Impersonal, best rendered by the passive.
50. Notice that this poem has the same tripartite structure as the preceding. (Heine's decided preference for this structure is evinced by the great number of poems of three stanzas.)
3. GANGES, river in India.
9. This bit of nature description, although unconventional, does not lack truth. Goethe offers a similar example, when he speaks of schalkhafte (roguish, waggish) Veilchen.
51. One of the finest of Heine's nature poems.
52.—6. MORGENLAND, see Vocabulary.
53.—8. NEBELTANZ, the dance of the mists.
54. Notice the realism of tone, not a word that rises above the plane of everyday prose. A whole tragedy compressed into three stanzas.
6, 7. The first man that happened to come her way.
8. IST ÜBEL DRAN, is in a sad fix.