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    Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems
    Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems
    Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems
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    Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems

    By Joseph Victor von Scheffel and Charles Godfrey Leland

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems - Joseph Victor von Scheffel

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      Title: Gaudeamus!

      Humorous Poems

      Author: Joseph Victor Scheffel

      Translator: Charles G. Leland

      Release Date: April 13, 2011 [EBook #35848]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAUDEAMUS! ***

      Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by Google Books

      Transcriber's Note:

      1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=T8EDAAAAQAAJ&dq

      GAUDEAMUS

      Humorous Poems

      TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF

      JOSEPH VICTOR SCHEFFEL

      AND OTHERS.

      BY

      CHARLES G. LELAND.

      LONDON:

      TRÜBNER & CO., 8 & 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.

      1872.

      [All Rights reserved.]

      JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS.

      CONTENTS.

      Translator's Preface

      Joseph Victor Scheffel. An Introductory Memoir

      Granite

      The Ichthyosaurus

      The Tazzelworm

      The Megatherium

      The Basalt

      The Boulder

      The Comet

      Guano Song

      Asphaltum

      The Pile Builder

      Hesiod

      Modern Greek

      Translation

      Pumpus of Perusia

      The Teutoburger Battle

      Old Assyrian--Jonah

      By the Border

      Hildebrand and Hadubrand

      Song of the Travelling Students

      The Cloister Cellar Master's Summer Morning Song

      The Maulbronn Fugue

      Der Enderle Von Ketsch

      The Rodenstein Ballads.

      The Three Villages

      The Welcome

      The Pawning

      The Page

      The Wild Army

      Rodenstein and the Priest

      Rodenstein

      Heidelberg.

      Number Eight

      The Martin's Goose

      The Last Trousers

      The Last Postillion

      Wine of Sixty-five

      Perkêo

      The Return Home

      Miscellaneous.

      Heinz Von Stein

      The Holy Coat at Treves

      Rambambo

      Bibesco

      The Jolly Brother

      The Students Dress-coat

      Ahasuerus

      The Song of the Widow, Clara Bakethecakes

      The Herring

      From the German Gipsy

      Brigand Song

      Die Zwei Freunde

      The Two Friends

      To the Reader

      TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

      This volume contains the greater portion of the poems which constitute the Gaudeamus--'Let us be jolly'--of Joseph Victor Scheffel, who is at present the most popular poet in Germany. Without being presented as such, these ballads, though complete in themselves, form in their connection a droll history of the world and of humanity--advancing from the early outburst of Granite and Basalt, through the boulder of Gneiss to the Ichthyosaurus and Megatherium. Man then appears as a dweller in the pre-historic Swiss-Lacustrine-dwelling on poles, where he bitterly bewails the misfortune of being a pioneer of civilization, and as one born before the invention of modern comforts.

      'In stocks I would gladly grow wealthy,

      But exchange is not yet understood:

      A good glass of beer would be healthy,

      But never a drop has been brewed.'

      The Early Phœnician is set forth in a droll song (originally published under the title of Jonah) which describes the disasters that befell a guest who could not pay his bill,--presented in arrow-head or cuneiform characters on six tiles. The old Etruscan era and that of the ancient German are also painted in a style which, could the truth be known, would probably be found as genially true to life as it is to the world-old, infinite spirit of Humour, which moved man in the same measure in ancient Egypt as in modern England. In these, as in his serious poems of a more ambitious nature, Joseph Victor Scheffel manifests a remarkable insight into the inner real life of the past. Like a geologist, or poet, he infers from trivial relics the probable feelings and habits of obscure beings or races, or at least imagines them, and assimilates them to modern usages with rare tact. These ballads have been printed, sung, and imitated in Germany of late years to a great extent. Scheffel has in fact founded a school of humorous poetry--that of the burlesque-scientific and historical--which, though by no means pretentious, has at least made the world laugh heartily. I sincerely trust that the following translations will induce the reader to become familiar with the original.

      I have omitted a few poems from the Gaudeamus, as deficient in the peculiar spirit of fun which characterises all that are here given; but should the public manifest its approbation of this work, they may be found in another edition. In their place I have given translations of a number of eccentric German-student songs of the new school, nearly all of which have found their way into the popular German song-books of late years.

      CHARLES G. LELAND.

      London, October, 1871.

      JOSEPH VICTOR SCHEFFEL.

      AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR.

      Joseph Victor Scheffel was born in the year 1826, at Karlsruhe, in Baden, where his father, a veteran officer, had taken up his residence. He received his first instruction in the 'Lyceum' of his native place, a high school which enjoyed at the time a splendid reputation, and was considered the best in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Whatever may have been said against one or the other of the professors, the majority were remarkable men, knowing how to awaken the mental activity of their pupils. The social life of the 'Lyceists' was free from ordinary constraints; and the merry youths enjoyed many privileges, which at other places were strictly reserved for University students.

      Nor did they lack any opportunities for intellectual improvement in the capital of Baden. The theatre was then excellent, and the 'Lyceists' visited it regularly. Eyen politics agitated the mind of this young generation. It must be remembered that thirty years ago Baden was the focus of political life, to which the eyes of every German patriot was directed; and although Mannheim was the seat of the agitation, the chamber united at Karlsruhe a number

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