those who were present at the burial were sworn upon the New Testament
not to reveal the spot where Sand was buried until such time as they were
freed from their oath. Then the grave was covered again with the turf,
that had been skilfully taken off, and that was relaid on the same spat,
so that no new grave could be perceived; then the nocturnal gravediggers
departed, leaving guards at the entrance.

There, twenty paces apart, Sand and Kotzebue rest: Kotzebue opposite the
gate in the most conspicuous spot of the cemetery, and beneath a tomb
upon which is engraved this inscription:

"The world persecuted him without pity, Calumny was his sad portion, He
found no happiness save in the arms of his wife, And no repose save in
the bosom of death. Envy dogged him to cover his path with thorns, Love
bade his roses blossom; May Heaven pardon him As he pardons earth!"

In contrast with this tall and showy monument, standing, as we have said,
in the most conspicuous spot of the cemetery, Sand's grave must be looked
far in the corner to the extreme left of the entrance gate; and a wild
plum tree, some leaves of which every passing traveller carries away,
rises alone upon the grave, which is devoid of any inscription.

As far the meadow in which Sand was executed, it is still called by the
people "Sand's Himmelsfartsweise," which signifies "The manner of Sand's
ascension."

Toward the end of September, 1838, we were at Mannheim, where I had
stayed three days in order to collect all the details I could find about
the life and death of Karl-Ludwig Sand. But at the end of these three
days, in spite of my active investigations, these details still remained