Eichendorff filled the front and back of this page with drafts of various poems. He used re marks to evaluate them: three vertical strokes stand for finished poems (“Good! Done!”), two strokes for those showing promise. The poem in the upper left-hand corner – a sonnet titled “Music” – is marked with a single stroke and is apparently an early draft awaiting further polishing. The first two stanzas are conventional, but the ending contains an idea that made this into one of German literature’s best-known poems. Eichendorff notes: “A song slumbers … in every thing”. In the margin he adds: “The poet must break the spell – make sure to strike the right tone!”