[55] It is impossible to see how Brandes can lay great stress on the fact that this rhyme occurs in both poems. The following rhymes are found on the following pages of the Elster edition, Vol. I, of Heine's works: "Spitze-Blitze" (36), "sitzen-nützen" (116), "Witzen-nützen" (124), "sitzen-blitzen" (216), "erhitzet-bespitzet" (242), "Blitz-Sitz" (257), "blitzt-gestützt" (276), "blitze-besitze" (319), "blitzet-gespitzet" (464). And in Loeben's poems the rhyme is equally common. The first strophe of his _Ferdusi_ runs as follows: Hell erglänzt an Persiens Throne Wo der grosse Mahmud sitzt; Welch Juwel ist's, das die Krone So vor allen schön umblitzt. And in Schreiber's saga we have in juxtaposition, the words. "Blitze" and "Spitze." The rhyme "Sitze-Blitze" occurs in Immanuel's "Lorelei," quoted by Seeliger, p. 31. [56] There are, to be sure, only 114 words in Loeben's ballad if we count "um's," "dir's," and "glaub's" as three words and not six. [57] These numbers are in the Columbia Library. [58] During these years Heine's letters are dated from Göttingen, Berlin, Gnesen, Berlin, Münster, Berlin, Lüneburg, Hamtburg, Ritzenbüttel, and Lüneburg. During these same years Loeben was in Dresden and he was ill. [59] We need only to mention such a strophe as the following from _Atta Troll_: Klang das nicht wie Jugendträume. Die ich träumte mit Chamisso Und Brentano und Fouqué In den blauen Mondscheinnächten? See Elster edition, II, 421. The lines were written in 1843. [60] The first edition of Karl Simrock's _Rheinsagen_ came out in 1836. This was not accessible. The edition of 1837, "zweite, vermehrte Auflage," contains 168 poems, 572 pages; this contains Simrock's "Ballade von der Lorelei." The edition of 1841 also contains Simrock's "Der Teufel und die Lorelei." The book contains 455 pages, 218 poems. The sixth edition (1809) contains 231 poems. In all editions the poems are arranged in geographical order from Südersee to Graubünden. Alexander Kaufmann's _Quellenangaben und Bemerkungen zu Kart Simrocks Rheinsagen_ throws no new light on the Lorelei-legend. [61] Cf. _Heinrich Heines sämtliche Werke_, edited by Walzel, Fränkel, Krähe, Leitzmann, and Peterson. Leipzig. 1911, II, 408. So far as I have looked into the matter, Walzel stands alone in this belief, though Mücke, as has been pointed out above, anticipated him in the statement that Heine drew on Schreiber in this case. But Mücke thinks that Heine also knew Loeben.