LA NUIT DU NOUVEL AN D'UN MALHEUREUX

Page 83. In The Nezv Yea/s Night of a Misérable Man, Jean Paul Richter recalls to mind this passage in the gospel of John, " Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye hâve the light, lest the darkness corne upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth,"

Page 85. 6. Fais comme lui, ... reviendrait pas.

Thèse lines are translated as follows by James C. Mangan:

" Hère, youthful reader, ponder ! and if thou, Like him, art reeling over the abyss, And shakest off sin's iron bondage now, This ghastly dream may prove thy guide to bliss; But should âge once be written on thy brow, Its wrinkles will not be a dream like this. Mayest vainly pour thy tears above the urn Oi thy departed youth — it never will return."