“Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,—
Take, I give it willingly;
For, invisible to thee,
Spirits twain have crossed with me.”

—  Ludwig Uhland

The Passage, Edinburgh Review (October 1832).

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German poet 1787–1862

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