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This tested the keenness of our young eyes, but it sometimes happened that we confounded trees still untouched with those which had been harvested. It sometimes brought us into conflict with the owners of the trees, and it was only natural that "Froebel's youngsters" often excited the peasants' ire. Gellert, it is true, has sung: "Enjoy what the Lord has granted, Grieve not for aught withheld."
I received a translation of 'Iphigenia' by Gottsched, and Quintus read it to me. I had the French with me, and I did not understand a word. He also brought me a poem by Pietsh, but I threw it aside." "I threw it aside, also," said Gellert, smiling. The king smiled pleasantly. "Should I remain here, you must come often and bring your fables to read to me." Gellert's brow clouded slightly.
Obviously the conclusion is forced upon us that the stories, like the words, are related collaterally, having descended from a common ancestral legend, or having been suggested by one and the same primeval idea. Closely connected with the Gellert myth are the stories of Faithful John and of Rama and Luxman.
Christopher laughed outrageously when he had finished, and Gellert smiled, and said: "Yes, whoever in the darkness lighteth another with a lamp, lighteth himself also; and the light is not part of ourselves, it is put into our hands by Him who hath appointed the suns their courses."
Frederick smiled, and perhaps to excite him still more, said quickly: "Tell me, how does it happen, Gellert, that we have so few celebrated writers?" "Your majesty sees before you now a German poet whom even the French have translated, and who call him the German La Fontaine."
Genius needs encouragement; and when it does not find it in its own land, and from its native princes, it cannot retain the great and joyous power of creation." The king did not answer, but walked thoughtfully up and down; from time to time he glanced quickly and searchingly at Gellert, who was standing opposite to him. "Have you ever been out of Saxony?" said the king, at last.
"Ah, sire, this cure might easily produce a new disease for me," said Gellert, terrified; "if the horse should be healthier than I, I could not ride it, and if it were as weak as myself, we would not be able to stir from the spot." "Then you must drive," said the king, laughing. "I have not the money, sire." "That is true," said the king.
To be sure, he has now and then presents from grand patrons; but no one gives him, once and for all, enough to live upon, and to have all over with a single acknowledgment." Our friend Christopher started as he heard this; he had quite made up his mind to take Gellert the wood: but he had yet to do it.
If you cannot go to-day, I must return to-morrow; if you are then still unwell, the day after; and so on every day, until you accompany me." "But this is frightful!" cried Gellert, anxiously. Quintus shrugged his shoulders. "You must decide, sir," he said; "I give you an hour. At four o'clock I will return and ask if you will go to-day, or another time."
Gellert, too, heard in his dreams a singing; he knew not what it was, but it rang so consolingly, so joyously! ... Christopher drove on, and he felt as though a bandage had been taken from his eyes; he reflected what a nice house, what a bonny wife and rosy children he had, and how warm the cloak which he had thrown over him was, and how well off were both man and beast; and through the still night he drove along, and beside him sat a spirit; but not an illusion of the brain, such as in olden time men conjured up to their terror, a good spirit sat beside him beside the woodman who his whole life long had never believed that anything could have power over him but what had hands and feet.
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