Living hours; a play in one act

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...to visualize. Heine declared that 'the women in Uhland's poems are only beautiful shadows, embodied moonshine.' 'French romanticism' says Brandes, 'produces clearly defined figures; the ideal of German romanticism is not a figure but a melody, not definite form but indefinite aspiration.' Evangeline is a feminine Heinrich von Ofterdingen, seeking the world over for the blue flower, and losing it in the end just when it seemed in her grasp. And it is so of 'Hiawatha.' It is romantic through and through, unreal even to ghostliness, touching the actual world only here and there. Its atmosphere and its melody are everything,--moonlight, starlight, romantic love, the days that are forgotten, and over all sentiment and pathos. The Indians are in reality monks and mediaeval knights and first cousins to the gods of northern mythology, Downward through the evening twilight In the day that are forgotten In the unremembered ages From the full moon fell Nokomis Fell the beautiful Nokomis She a wife, but not a mother. Downward through the evening twilight On the muiskoday, the meadow, On the prairie full of blossoms. 'Seel a star falls!' said the people From the sky a star is falling. There among the ferns and mosses There among the prairie lilies On the muskoday, the meadow, In the moonlight and the starlight Fair Nokomis bore a daughter And she called her name Wenonah As the first-born of her daughters And the daughter of Nokomis Grew up like the prairie lilies, Grew a tall and slender maiden, With the beauty of the moonlight With the beauty of the starlight.' A vague dream it is of fairy land, of monsters and marvels, the fancies of a childlike people,--and its main charm is 'the moonlight and the starlight' the soft Indian summer that envelops it like a haze. But as...