12. 'EINER UM DEN ANDEREN', _one after another_, _in turn_. 75.--13. 'DAS AUFGESCHLAGNE GEBET', _the prayer to which the book was opened_. 76. This may be the direct description either of a Dutch landscape or of a painting. Holland, like most of the North Sea Plain, is one vast level expanse of country, through which the rivers and brooks move but sluggishly. Here and there a Dutch windmill looms up; like all other objects it seems to peer forth from a haze because of the moisture-laden atmosphere. Nowhere else does nature assume such a bewitchingly drowsy aspect in autumn as here. 10. OB, compare note to 73, 59. TRUTZE = trotze. 11. STROHKAPUZE, refers to the straw thatched roof. 77.--6. IN EINS FALLEN, _to coalesce_. 8. _And in sadness become oblivious of each other_. 9. HIN UND WIEDER, _back and forth_. 78. The last of Lenau's _Waldlieder_. The morbid melancholy of the poet has softened, and death is to him _heimlich still vergnügtes Tauschen_, _silent sweet passing from one state to another_. 5. VON HINNEN, _away_. MÖRIKE Eduard Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg, September 8, 1804. Circumstances forced him into the study of theology, and so he passed through the schools preparatory to the famous Tübingen School of Divinity, where he completed his studies. He proved but an indifferent student (his thorough knowledge of Greek and Latin was in good part the result of later studies), he preferred to live in a fairy world of his own creation. Nature, music, and poetry were his delight, and of all the poets Goethe was always his favorite. For eight years Mörike was vicar in various villages of Württemberg, more than once tempted to give up the ministry, but finally realizing that there was no better place to live his poet dreams than the attic room of a Suabian parsonage. In 1834 he became pastor in Cleversulzbach, a secluded little village, nestling among the Suabian hills. Here the poet, with his mother and sister, lived an idyllic existence, his most frequent visitor the Muse. Ill health forced him to resign in 1843, and Mörike once more became a wanderer. During these years love again crossed his path, and to be able to marry--his pension was too meager--he accepted (1851) a position at a girls' seminary in Stuttgart, where he taught German Literature for one or two hours a week, a none too heavy and an altogether congenial task. Mörike died June 4, 1875.