Poems for the Consideration of Our Age

A Letter to the Translator.

Do not worry, my dear Sir original: "m. H." (mein Herr), a formal address to a gentleman, that your translation of the Apologues Apologues: short moral fables or allegories, usually intended to convey a philosophical or ethical lesson of the meritorious Johann Valentin Andreä Johann Valentin Andreä (1586–1654) was a prominent German theologian and writer, famously associated with the Rosicrucian manifestos and social reform might stand in the way of the small monument that I have promised to raise to him from his own writings. It was with no other intention that I sought to refresh his memory—and therefore scattered poems, fables, and dialogues of his here and there—than that the attention of good people might be directed toward him, and that our own age might come to know the man who, in his century, bloomed like a rose among thorns. It can, therefore, be nothing other than most welcome to me if another