I was undecided whether to have Edvard lend her Schiller's poems, so that I could accidentally chance on Thekla's song which I'd then recite, or Bürger's poems. I chose the latter particularly because his 'Lenore', however beautiful, is after all somewhat extravagant. I opened it at 'Lenore', read this poem aloud with all the pathos I could muster.