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German Art

Translation of Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

BY no kind Augustus reared,

To no Medici endeared,

German Art arose:

Fostering glory smiled not on her;

Ne’er with kingly smiles to sun her,

Did her blooms unclose.

No,—she went by monarchs slighted,

Went unhonored, unrequited,

From high Frederick’s throne;

Praise and pride be all the greater,

That man’s genius did create her

From man’s worth alone.

Therefore, all from loftier mountains,

Purer wells and richer fountains,

Streams our poet-art:

So no rule to curb its rushing;

All the fuller flows it gushing

From its deep,—the heart.