When suffering rent my weary heart,
Thy breath of fragrant woodland flowers
Did life renew, fresh strength impart.

Oh Scheffel! may thy years be long!
And may'st thou live to see the time,
When this thy genial Schwarzwald song
Will find a home in every clime.

_Basel_, _June_, 1877.

CONTENTS.

DEDICATION

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIFTIETH EDITION

FIRST PART.

HOW YOUNG WERNER RODE INTO THE SCHWARZWALD

SECOND PART.

YOUNG WERNER WITH THE SCHWARZWALD PASTOR

THIRD PART.

ST. FRIDOLIN'S DAY

FOURTH PART.

YOUNG WERNER'S ADVENTURES ON THE RHINE

FIFTH PART.

THE BARON AND HIS DAUGHTER

SIXTH PART.

HOW YOUNG WERNER BECAME THE BARON'S TRUMPETER

SEVENTH PART.

THE EXCURSION TO THE MOUNTAIN LAKE

EIGHTH PART.

THE CONCERT IN THE GARDEN PAVILION

NINTH PART.

TEACHING AND LEARNING

TENTH PART.

YOUNG WERNER IN THE GNOME'S CAVE

ELEVENTH PART.

THE HAUENSTEIN RIOT

TWELFTH PART.

YOUNG WERNER AND MARGARETTA

THIRTEENTH PART.

WERNER SUES FOR MARGARETTA

FOURTEENTH PART.

THE BOOK OF SONGS

YOUNG WERNER'S SONGS

SONGS OF THE CAT HIDDIGEIGEI

SONGS OF THE SILENT MAN

SOME OF MARGARETTA'S SONGS

WERNER'S SONGS. FIVE YEARS LATER

FIFTEENTH PART.

THE MEETING IN ROME

SIXTEENTH PART.

SOLUTION AND END

NOTES.

DEDICATION.

"Who is yonder light-haired stranger
Who there like a cat is roaming
O'er the roof of Don Pagano?"--
Thus asked many honest burghers,
Dwellers on the Isle of Capri,
When they from the market turning
Looked up at the palm-tree and the
Low-arched roof of moorish fashion.

And the worthy Don Pagano
Said: "That is a strange queer fellow,
And most strange his occupation.
Came here wi