Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books Transcriber's Note: 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=T8EDAAAAQAAJ&dq 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. GAUDEAMUS Humorous Poems TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF JOSEPH VICTOR SCHEFFEL AND OTHERS. BY CHARLES G. LELAND. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 8 & 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1872. [_All Rights reserved_.] JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS. CONTENTS. _Translator's Preface_ _Joseph Victor Scheffel. An Introductory Memoir_ _Granite_ _The Ichthyosaurus_ _The Tazzelworm_ _The Megatherium_ _The Basalt_ _The Boulder_ _The Comet_ _Guano Song_ _Asphaltum_ _The Pile Builder_ _Hesiod_ _Modern Greek_ _Translation_ _Pumpus of Perusia_ _The Teutoburger Battle_ _Old Assyrian--Jonah_ _By the Border_ _Hildebrand and Hadubrand_ _Song of the Travelling Students_ _The Cloister Cellar Master's Summer Morning Song_ _The Maulbronn Fugue_ _Der Enderle Von Ketsch_ _The Rodenstein Ballads_. _The Three Villages_ _The Welcome_ _The Pawning_ _The Page_ _The Wild Army_ _Rodenstein and the Priest_ _Rodenstein_ _Heidelberg_. _Number Eight_ _The Martin's Goose_ _The Last Trousers_ _The Last Postillion_ _Wine of Sixty-five_ _Perkêo_ _The Return Home_ _Miscellaneous_. _Heinz Von Stein_ _The Holy Coat at Treves_ _Rambambo_ _Bibesco_ _The Jolly Brother_ _The Students Dress-coat_ _Ahasuerus_ _The Song of the Widow, Clara Bakethecakes_ _The Herring_ _From the German Gipsy_ _Brigand Song_ _Die Zwei Freunde_ _The Two Friends_ _To the Reader_ TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. This volume contains the greater portion of the poems which constitute the Gaudeamus--'Let us be jolly'--of Joseph Victor Scheffel, who is at present the most popular poet in Germany. Without being presented as such, these ballads, though complete in themselves, form in their connection a droll history of the world and of humanity--advancing from the early outburst of Granite and Basalt, through the boulder of Gneiss to the Ichthyosaurus and Megatherium. Man then appears as a dweller in the pre-historic Swiss-Lacustrine-dwelling on poles, where he bitterly bewails the misfortune of being a pioneer of civilization, and as one born before the invention of modern comforts.