He took long walks, and read the Bible and the Protestant version of the Psalms, and Shakespeare in Schlegel's translation.

He had composed nothing for a long time; but apparently, Lisa, his best pupil, had been able to inspire him; he had written for her the cantata to which Panshin had! made allusion.

The words of this cantata he had borrowed from his collection of hymns.

He had added a few verses of his own.

It was sung by two choruses--a chorus of the happy and a chorus of the unhappy.