A new volume of the extensive late work of Friedrich Rückert, an undiscovered treasure. The year 1856 increasingly takes on the contours of a turning point in Rückert's life. The deaths of old companions such as Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall and Carl John are accumulating, and a long-standing decline in the health of his beloved Luise is now becoming ever more clearly a matter of finitude. At the same time, new life enters the Neuses manor: Rückert's youngest son August marries Alma Froriep, a scion of the Weimar entrepreneurial family Bertuch-Froriep, in the spring of 1856, which will have far-reaching consequences for the aging Rückert. He bears the impending final loss of Luise with stoic acceptance, while he turns with joyful curiosity to the new "young life" in the house. Thus, the poetry of the yes.