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The Music Room of Fanny Hensel
Julius Helfft
1849
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Julius Helfft was a German landscape and architectural painter who trained at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin and who exhibited his works at academy exhibitions. Several of his paintings were hung in the castles of Wilhelm IV.
With evening a whistle. Again the sweating store room
opens its throat wide, and we march out in formation
worn down by the heat wave and a day so long:
hard working soldier-women.
And why should…
Oh prairie, endless prairie,
The eyes of the herdsmen look out:
Not a bush, not a thistle, not a tree,
A new wind comes to the desert.
Over forlorn expanses the song of the herdsmen
Will sound and…