Who works gives blessings and commands; Kings glory in the orb and crown— Be ours the glory of our hands. 7. Long in these walls-long may we greet Your footfalls, Peace and Concord sweet! Distant the day, oh! distant far, 8. When the rude hördes of trampling War, And where, Now the sweet heaven, when day doth leave Limns its soft rose-hues on the vail of Eve; Shall the fierce war-brand tossing in the gale, From town and hamlet shake the horrent glare! Now, its destined task fulfilled, Asunder break the prison-mold; Let the goodly bell we build, Eye and heart alike behold. The hammer down heave, 'till the cover it cleave; For not till we shatter the wall of its cell Can we lift from its darkness and bondage the bell. If skilled the hand and ripe the hour; Behold the red Destruction come! 9. When rages strength that has no reason, 10. 11. Proclaiming discord wide and far, Rush the roused people at the sound! The hyena-shapes (that women were!) Jest with the horrors they survey; No torch, though lit from Heaven, illumes Rejoice and laud the prospering skies! Pure-shining, as a star of gold! Rim and crown glitter bright, like the sun's flash of light. And even the scutcheon, clear-graven shall tell That the art of a master has fashioned the bell! Come in-come in My merry men-we'll form a ring, The new-born labor christening; And "CONCORD" we will name her!— To union may her heartfelt call In brother-love attune us all! May she the děstined glōry win For which the master sought to frame her 12.. 13. Aloft (all earth's existence under), Be hers above a voice to raise 'Like those bright hosts in yonder sphere, We dedicate her lips sublime, That earth no life which earth has known Slowly now the cords upheave her! From her earth-grave sōars the bell; In the music-realm to dwell. Up-upward—yet raise— She has risen-she sways. Fair Bell, to our city bode joy and increase; And oh, may thy first sound be hallowed to-PEACE!1 SCHILLER-LYTTON's translation. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER, a German poet, dramatist, and historian, was born in Marbach, Würtemberg, November 10, 1759, and died in Weimar, May 9, 1805. His worthiest prose production, "History of the Thirty Years' War," published in 1791, is probably the best historical performance of which Germany can boast. His greatest literary success, the drama of " Wallenstein," appeared in 1799. "William Tell," his most popular dramatic production, was published in 1804. Though probably the real founder of the German drama, he is best known by his ballads and lyric poems. 1 Peace, the prayer at the end, breathed the wish of all Germany when the poem was written-during the four years' war with France. SECTION XX. I. 88. COUNTESS LAURA. PART FIRST. T was a dreary day in Pădʼuä. IT The countèss Laura, for a single year Lay dead. She died of some uncertain ill, 2. In vain had Paracelsus' taxed his art, The countess only smiled, when they were gone, As if she fain would sleep, no common sleep, 1 Paracelsus, a Swiss alchemist and empiric, born in 1493, and died Sept. 23, 1541. The son of a physician, he received an irregular education, the defects of which he managed to conceal or supply by remarkable self-possession and assur ance. With all his absurdities, he taught some true principles with regard to the use of opium, mercury, sulphur, antimony, and arsenic, and was the first to introduce chemical remedies into the dispensatory. His writings are still extant. 3. The Bishop, when he shrived her, coming fōrth, Cried, in a voice of heavenly ecstacy, "O blessed soul! with nothing to confess, One morn in spring, when every flower of earth Opened itself, and so exhaled to heaven. 4. Wher the count heard it, he reeled back a pace; 5. Of all the glory that environed her, That mellow nimbus circling round my star?" He paced along his gallery of art, And strode amongst the painters, where they stood, With Carlo, the Venetian, at their head, Studying the Masters by the dawning light Of his transcendent genius. Through the groups Of gayly vestured artists moved the count― 1 Vō' tive, given by vow; devoted. |