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Updated: October 31, 2025

'No! he said to himself; 'no heart that loves can willingly expose itself to this dreary hubbub of noise, in which every longing and every tear is scoft and mockt at by the wild laughter of pealing trumpets.

Ludwig Tieck - The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano: Tales from the German of Tieck