NIGHT IN THE CABIN 179 VIII. STORM 183 IX. CALM 185 X. AN APPARITION IN THE SEA 187 XI. PURIFICATION 190 XII. PEACE 192 SECOND CYCLUS 195 I. SALUTATION TO THE SEA 195 II. TEMPEST 198 III. WRECKED 199 IV. SUNSET 202 V. THE SONG OF THE OCEANIDES 205 VI. THE GODS OF GREECE 209 VII. THE PHOENIX 214 VIII. QUESTION 215 IX. SEA-SICKNESS 216 X. IN PORT 220 XI. EPILOGUE 223 HEINRICH HEINE. (BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.) Harry Heine, as he was originally named, was born in Duesseldorf on the Rhine, December 13th, 1799. His father was a well-to-do Jewish merchant; and his mother, the daughter of the famous physician and Aulic Counlor Von Geldern, was, according to her son, a "_femme distinguee_." His early childhood fell in the days of the occupation of Duesseldorf by the French revolutionary troops; and, in the opinion of his biographer Strodtmann, the influence of the French rule, thus brought directly to bear upon the formation of his character, can scarcely be exaggerated. His education was begun at the Franciscan monastery of the Jesuits at Duesseldorf, where the teachers were mostly French priests; and his religious instruction was at the same time carried on in a private Jewish school. His principal companions were Jewish children, and he was brought up with a rigid adherence to the Hebrew faith. Thus in the very seed-time of his mental development were simultaneously sown the germs of that Gallic liveliness and mobility which pre-eminently distinguish him among German authors, and also of his ineradicable sympathy with things Jewish, and his inveterate antagonism to the principles and results of Christianity.