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    808 JOHANNA KINKEL.

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    * I<N • «»• The Decease Papers Of Johann...

    Dr . Kinkel came up to her room and heard the doctor ' s report , he then left her , and went downstairs to teach a class which he held when servant

    at his own house . Not twelve minutes elapsed a called him out of the room to tell him the fatal news . It was evifor air

    which dent that is si , seized characteristic by a sudden of heart spasm disease , and Frau with Kinkel the craving had rushed , feet from the

    towards the windowthe sill of which was only two floor A , coroner thrown 's it inquest open , , was and held losing on consciousness the subsequent had Friday fallen . out The .

    verdict was " accidental death , " and the post mortem examination proved that the deceased must have suffered severely . The heart was

    indeed so far enlarged and so enfeebled in its functions , that according to the inion of the physician a fatal crisis must soon

    have occurred even op without the intervention of this accident . Johanna Kinkel was buried in the new cemetery at Wokirig . husband

    Some German friends stood round the coffin , over which her hills pronounced celebrated at her near head Guildford German . a The few poet words day looked , was ( an of as exile bri farewell blue ght like and and . herself clear Ferdinand brilliant as , ) laid her _^ Freilegrath and own a laurel the mountains wreath distant , the

    of the Rhine . Flowers were strewn upon her by the hands of p women lanted and near young the spot children , and . her She face rests turned under towards a young her araucaria beloved

    native land . beautiful The impressions poem . Let of an that Eng November lish translation day survive of this in Freilegrath poem be the ' s

    epitaph with which we close our little memoir . In We silence exiles on stood a winter around ' s day , ,

    A Grerman ¦ woman ' s head to lay Blue Hoar The In rose Eng frost sun land the was was distant ' s on shining alien the Surrey ground hedges there hill . ; ; still

    Against the far blue air . On boughs chirp of juniper ing and a broom bird

    Swang many , "While And many stifled a sobs brow were was heard dark . with gloom , dread

    One friendly hand in trembling , Upon A last the sad bier homage a ribbon paid red ,- — laurel laid

    And wreath of . To In She earnest the noblest bewildere life teaching , in d cheerful han gave throng song ,

    orp , Calm Now were by the the open words grave the . father spoke , Yet As as near if life his -Hood children welled pressed and , broke

    From out his wounded breast .

    808 Johanna Kinkel.

    808 JOHANNA KINKEL .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/20/