Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Miscellaneous | | The German Muse | | Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
| | Translated by J. S. Dwight
NO Augustan summer glowed, | |
| Or Medicean bounty flowed | |
| O’er the soil of German art; | |
| It was not in glory nourished, | |
| But it blossomed full and flourished | 5 |
| With no care on princes’ part. | |
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| By our country’s noblest son, | |
| By the mighty Frederick’s throne, | |
| Unprotected, it went forth. | |
| Well the German’s heart may beat, | 10 |
| Well he may with pride repeat, | |
| He created his own worth. | |
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| Therefore mounts in loftier bows, | |
| And in fuller torrent flows | |
| The high hymn of German bards, | 15 |
| And, in its own fulness swelling, | |
| From the heart’s own depths outwelling, | |
| Spurns restraint, nor rule regards. | | | | |
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