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Then follow the stanzas which I have first quoted. There is certainly
ground to surmise that Lord Macaulay had in mind what I have called
"The Lay of the Leveler" when in 1820 he wrote "A Radical War-song."
In support of this opinion, I subjoin, for comparison, its last stanza
but one:
Down with your sheriffs and your mayors,
Your registrars and proctors!
We'll live without the lawyer's cares,
And die without the doctor's.
No discontented fair shall pout
To see her spouse so stupid:
We'll tread the torch of Hymen out,
And live content with Cupid.
F.H.
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THE PHILOSOPHER STRAUSS AS A POET.
The writer of a sketch in a late number of a Leipsic journal presents
the famous author of the _Life of Jesus_, David Friederich Strauss, in
a new character. He mentions, first, that in the _Unterhaltungen am
haeuslichen Heerde_ ("Conversations around the Homehearth"), published
by Strauss in 1856, the latter makes, in the introduction, the
following graceful reference to the deceased friend of his youth, E.F.
Kauffmann: "If I were a philosophical emperor and wrote
self-confessions, I would thank the gods for giving me, among other
blessings, a poet and musician for an early friend. He is dead now,
alas! the noble man whom alone I have to thank that my ear, though
still unskillful, has been opened to the world of harmony.
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