The result was a string of humorous stanzas bewailing the fate of a poet who is compelled by his vocation to fix his mind upon the love ecstasies of Princess Eboli, and listen at the same time to the Swashy music of the wash-tub: I feel my love-lorn lady's hurt, My fancy waxes hotter; I hear,-the sound of sock and shirt A-swishing in the water.
"The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller"
Calvin Thomas