Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79.
On Seeing the Goethe–Schiller Monument at Weimar
By George Browning (1813?–1878)O
In the town of Weimar stand
Goethe, Schiller,—two immortals,
Idols of their fatherland!
Germany indeed may point with
Pride unto that poet pair;
As in life they by each other
Stood, so now the wreath they share.
One the Reaper cut down early,
Scarce had shone on him life’s prime;
But the other lived to carry
On his locks the silver rime.
Honored by their prince and country
In the Fürstengraft they lie,
Side by side their bodies crumble,
But their works will live for aye.