Though your object may be the sublimest that space holds within it,
Yet, my good friends, the sublime dwells not in the regions of space.
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Heavy and solemn,
Through the green plain they marching came!Measure less spread, like a table dread,For the wild grim dice of the iron game.The looks are bent on the shaking ground,And the heart beats loud with a knelling sound;Swift by the breasts that must bear the brunt,Gallops the major along the front–‘Halt!’And fettered they stand at the stark…
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth,
Up, comrades, up, and aid the birthThe bell that shall be born to-day!Who would honor obtain,With the sweat and the pain,The praise that man gives to the master must buy.–But the blessing withal must descend from on high!And well an earnest word beseemsThe work the earnest hand prepares;Its load more light the labor deems,When sweet…
Hear I the creaking gate unclose?
No–’twas the wind that, whirring, rose,Amidst the poplars drifted!Adorn thyself, thou green leaf-bowering roof,Destined the bright one’s presence to receive,For her, a shadowy palace-hall aloofWith holy night, thy boughs familiar weave.And ye sweet flatteries of the delicate air,Awake and sport her rosy cheek around,When their light weight the tender feet shall bear,When beauty comes to…
Three errors there are, that forever are found
But empty their meaning and hollow their sound–And slight is the comfort they bring to the breast.The fruits of existence escape from the claspOf the seeker who strives but those shadows to grasp–So long as man dreams of some age in this lifeWhen the right and the good will all evil subdue;For the right and…
‘Take the world!’ Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies
It shall ever remain as your heirloom and prize,So divide it as brothers, and happily live.’Then all who had hands sought their share to obtain,The young and the aged made haste to appear;The husbandman seized on the fruits of the plain,The youth through the forest pursued the fleet deer.The merchant took all that his warehouse…