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Updated: May 29, 2025
That of Counsellor Heuschrecke 'Grasshopper' though not offensive, looks much more like a piece of fancy-work than a 'fair business transaction. The same may be said of Blumine 'Flower-Goddess' the heroine of the fable; and so of the rest.
"Our Alemannic poet," he wrote, "has life and feeling for everything, the open heart, the open arms of love; and every star and every flower are human in his sight.... In other, better words, the evening-glow of a lovely, peaceful soul slumbers upon all the hills he bids arise; for the flowers of poetry he substitutes the flower-goddess Poetry herself; he sets to his lips the Swiss Alp-horn of youthful longing and joy, while pointing with the other hand to the sunset-gleam of the lofty glaciers, and dissolved in prayer, as the sound of the chapel-bells is flung down from the mountains."
Thus, if his sudden bereavement, in this matter of the Flower-goddess, is talked of as a real Doomsday and Dissolution of Nature, in which light doubtless it partly appeared to himself, his own nature is nowise dissolved thereby; but rather is compressed closer.
"In short, our private opinion is, as we have remarked, that the whole story of a correspondence with Germany, a university of Nobody-knows-where, a Professor of Things in General, a Counsellor Grasshopper, a Flower-Goddess Blumine, and so forth, has about as much foundation in truth as the late entertaining account of Sir John Herschel's discoveries in the moon.
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