17. On Anastasius Grün

In connection with Anastasius Gain's application for the post of chamberlain, one is involuntarily reminded of the verses he published two years ago in the Elegante." The poem was entitled

Apostasie and concluded:

God's will, you'll know how well I fare By this flag overhead. God's truth, if ever you see me there, I'm sick or good as dead. Then think of me as dead and gone: Bitter, to cast one's eye, Living, on one's own gravestone, As one is passing by.

It sounds almost like a premonition.

Written in the first half of April 1840 Printed according to the journal

First published in the Telegraph für Published in English for the first Deutschland No. 61, April 1840 time

Signed: F. O.

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Endnotes

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