They knew not what to make of his rhetorical recitation of his own unpublished ballads — " Faustine" ; the " Four Boards of the Coffin Lid" ; the " Ballad of Burdens" — which he declaimed as though they were books of the Iliad.

他们不知道他对自己未发表的民谣——《浮士德》的修辞朗诵有什么看法； “棺盖四板”； “Ballad of Burdens”——他朗诵起来就好像它们是《伊利亚特》的书一样。