So for a week he floated with the current of casual dissipation and then, caught for an hour by a refluent eddy of lonesomeness,-four parts of the pentamerous clover-leaf were paired lovers,-he penned a missive which might have changed much in his future career: He sent to Christian Schwan a formal proposal for the hand of Margarete.
"The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller"
Calvin Thomas