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THE “KING OF THE HARTZ AND THE TAILOR OF LIEBENAU,. _ Tue bosom of the earth, our common mother, has ever been the refuge for hapless love. Mortals, whose destiny in love has been star-crossed, open themselves a way into this retreat by poison or pistol, or such violent means: The spiritual race, however,

can return to enjoy the light of heaven as soon as their passion has ceased to torment them; but unhappy mortals are unable to leave the tomb when they have once entered its precincts. When the Gnome had quitted the world, it was with the intention of no more beholdin the sun : by degrees, however, time softened his terion; but aspace of no less than nine hundred and ninety-nine years had elapsed before the wound in his heart was completely healed—a circumstance ich is infinitely to the honour of the whole race of es, and which proves that there is more fidelity beneath the earth than upon its surface. It happened ea a day, when Rubezahl was tormented with ennui, that a certain waggish imp, of a droll witty nature, and who filled the office of buffoon at the court of his oe majesty, proposed an airing upon the iesengeburge, and to which the Gnome agreed. vou. 1. Feb, 1827. G

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