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Nicolai's Book on the Source of the Danube.[8]

Nothing he likes that is great;
  for that reason the shallow inquirer

Traces, great Danube, thy course
  till thou art shallow and flat.


Nikolai's Buch über die Quellen der Donau.

Nichts kann er leiden was gross ist
  und mächtig, drum, herrliche Donau,

Spürt dir der Häscher so lang
  nach, bis er seicht dich ertappt.