In his younger days, Liliencron felt the throb and stir of life far too keenly to find leisure for literature. Not till 1884 did his first volume of verse appear, recollections of his soldier days. The volume contains graphic descriptions of the most concise brevity, single words taking the place of whole sentences (132). He delineates war with all its horror, not however without a sad pathos (133). He is also a master at depicting the more joyous side of a soldier's life, the carefree maneuvres of a regiment with its colors and music passing through a village (130). In his love of nature Liliencron is akin to Storm, and even surpasses the older poet in the impressionistic vividness of his descriptions. 130. The poem pictures a German village scene: soldiers with their music approach from the distance, march through and disappear. 3. BRICHT'S, _breaks forth_ or _bursts forth_. 6 ff. The attention is first focused on the deeper notes. A gradual rise in pitch is noticeable in the lines from instrument to instrument named. 24. LATERNENGLAS, of the street lanterns. 29. WILHEL(MINE), KATHARINE (TRINE), CHRI(STINE) 131.--9. SIRRT, an onomatopoetic word coined by the poet to imitate the sound of the scythe cutting through the grain. 10. ARBEITSFRIEDEN, _the quiet peace of daily labor_. 11. HEIMATWELT, _home world_. Compare _Alltagswelt_, _work-a-day world_. 132.--4. _march and flood of victory_. 11 f. DURCH DIE LÜFTE BRAUST, etc., _with horrible whir of wings a flight of vultures passes through the air_. 133. Famous battle in the Seven Years War, in which Frederick the Great was defeated with enormous losses by the Austrians. 2. SOMMERHALM, lit. summerstalk, i.e., _growing grain_. 4. IST AUS, _is over_. 9. _he had to go_. 16. BEVERN, a small town in Brunswick. 22. HINEIN, into the book. 134.--4. WINZERVOLK, collective sing. Best rendered as plural of _Winzer_. 136. A lullaby for the poet's son _Wulff_ (_Wolf_). 3. MONDESKAHN, i.e., crescent moon-shaped like a boat. Render the line, _slowly the crescent moon floats like a boat_. 137.--5. _The content of life not stirred by a breeze_. 138.--6 ff. SONNENGRÜN ... WEISS ... STILL. The peculiar effect of sunlight on colors and on quiet is depicted by these compounds. 14. -FÄLTIG, _-fold_. 16. _slowly the dusk of evening lowers_. VOCABULARY