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See in the babe two loveliest flowers united–yet in truth,
But loosened is the gentle bond, no longer side by side–From holy shame the fiery strength will soon itself divide.Permit the youth to sport, and still the wild desire to chase,For, but when sated, weary strength returns to seek the grace.Yet in the bud, the double flowers the future strife begin,How precious all–yet naught can…
O Freunde, nicht diese Tone!
Und freudenvollere!Freude schoner Gotterfunken,Tochter aus Elysium,Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmliche dein Heiligtum!Deine Zauber binden wieder,Was die Mode Streng geteilt;Alle Menschen werden Bruder,Wo dein sanfter Flugel weiltWem der gross e Wurf gelungen,Eines Freundes Freund zu sein,Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,Mische seinen Jubel ein!Ja, wer auch nur eine SeeleSein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehleWeinend sich…
The tyrant Dionys to seek,
The watchful guard upon him swept;The grim king marked his changeless cheek:‘What wouldst thou with thy poniard? Speak!’‘The city from the tyrant free!’‘The death-cross shall thy guerdon be.’‘I am prepared for death, nor pray,’Replied that haughty man, ‘I to live;Enough, if thou one grace wilt giveFor three brief suns the death delayTo wed my sister–leagues…
Thou in truth shouldst be one, yet not with the whole shouldst thou be so.
Voice of the whole is thy reason, but thou thine own heart must be ever;If in thy heart reason dwells evermore, happy art thou.
‘What knight or what vassal will be so bold
See! I hurl in its depths a goblet of gold,Already the waters over it flow.The man who can bring back the goblet to me,May keep it henceforward,–his own it shall be.’Thus speaks the king, and he hurls from the heightOf the cliffs that, rugged and steep,Hang over the boundless sea, with strong might,The goblet afar,…