Kaspar Hauser sings:

I arrived a calm orphan

Rich only in my tranquil eyes

Unto men in great cities:

They did not think me clever.

At twenty a novel disquiet

Under the name of amorous flames

Made me find women beautiful:

None thought me handsome.

Though having no country, no king

And brave not at all

I wished to die in war:

Death wanted nothing of me.

Too soon born or too late?

What am I doing in this world?

0 you, everyone, my pain is deep:

Pray for the wretched Kaspar!

Paul Verlaine