German Literature Companion:

‘Der Postillon’

‘Postillon, Der’, a poem written by N. Lenau in America in 1832-3. It tells of a postilion who invariably halts the coach in order to blow a salute to his dead comrade. Its first line runs ‘Lieblich war die Maiennacht’.

 
 
 

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