Meister Carl

“ Who claims it alone.’
(sotto voce)
Who will claim till he lose it,
For thank God! some day
These masks and our folly
Must vanish away;
Alas! that till then
We must dance on the floor,
And howl with the wolves
Till their madness be o’er.
Philadelphia, 1850.
Meister Carl.
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