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One of these title people is asked, “art thou nearer to me, or am I nearer to thee?” by an “antique” in a Friedrich Schiller poem. An archetypal “merry” one of these people titles a poem by the author of Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, Joseph von Eichendorff. One of these people titles a poem whose speaker claims that “in all the treetops hearest thou hardly a breath” (10[1])and that “soon like these, thou too (10[1])shalt rest.” (10[1])A pair of poems titled for one of these people were written under an oak tree and on a cabin wall by Goethe, who called them “nightsongs.” (10[2])One of these people (10[1])sighs (10[1])and asks, (10[1])“Where?” (10[1])in a Georg Philipp Schmidt poem adapted as a lied by Franz Schubert. The sequel to (10[1])Wilhelm (10[1])Meister’s Apprenticeship depicts his “Years” (10[1])as one of these (10[3])people. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, German Romantics (10[1])often depicted a type of “lust” named for what (10[1])people? ■END■ (10[1])

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