II
See!I could a thousand volumes fill,Writing only "Jenny"in each line,Still they would a world of thought conceal,Deed eternal and unchanging Will,Verses sweet that yearning gently still,All the glow and all the Aether's shine,Anguished sorrow's pain and joy divine,All of Life and Knowledge that is mine.
I can read it in the stars up younder,From the Zephyr it comes back to me,From the being of the wild waves'thunder.
Truly,I would write it down as a refrain,For the coming centuries to see --
LOVE IS JENNY,JENNY IS LOVE'S NAME.
(written in November 1836)
NOTES
[1]This section contains several poems from Marx's three albumn of poems written in the late autumn of 1836and in the winter of 1836-37.
According to his daughter Laura Lafargue and his biographer Franz Mehring,who had access to his manus after his death,two of these albumn bore the title Book of Love,Part I and Part II,and the third,Book of Songs.Each had the following dedication:"To my dear,ever beloved Jenny von Westphalen."The covers of the albums were later included by Marx in his book of verse dedicated to his father.