King Midas: a Romance

PART I

In the merry month of May.

KING MIDAS

CHAPTER I

“O Madchen, Madchen, Wie lieb' ich dich!”

It was that time of year when all the world belongs to poets, for their harvest of joy; when those who seek the country not for beauty, but for coolness, have as yet thought nothing about it, and when those who dwell in it all the time are too busy plant...