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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Distich

By Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805)

Translation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

IN the hexameter rises the fountain’s silvery column;

In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.