A CHAPTER ABOUT SCHNADAHUPFLN. 375 



17. 

 And a mind not contented 



Is rain, fog, and haze, 

 You see nothing pleasing 



Wherever you gaze. 



With the exception of the first six verses, the "Schna- 

 dahupfln" are not taken in the order observed in the 

 original ; yet in the selection I have endeavoured to 

 make choice of such as, when strung together, would 

 follow each other in the proper order, and have been 

 anxious to give those in which the character of these 

 songs was most decidedly marked. The attentive 

 reader will certainly have observed that in No. 6 the 

 singer has seized on the "flower" mentioned in the 

 preceding verse, as a subject on which to form his 

 stanza; and having introduced something about a 

 kiss, he who follows weaves it, as it were, into his 

 verse, of which he makes it the subject. Nos. 8, 9, 

 10, 11, 12, and 13 do not so visibly spring one from 

 the other, though the theme is still the same in each. 

 Nos. 14, 15, 16, and 17 refer again to one and the 

 same subject, the blessing of a happy and contented 

 disposition. The following are strung together at 

 random, taken like the rest from KobelTs book of 

 " Schnadahiipfln." 



A tree is not an emperor, 



Yet has it a crown ; 

 And the birds and gold-chafers 



The jewels thereon. 



Though young be the oak, yet 



At one glance you see 

 'Twill be something more than 



A poor willow-tree. 



