From the German by Samuel Atkins Eliot
From “Song of the Bell”
LET us with care observe
What from our strength, yet weakness, springs;
For he respect can ne’er deserve
Who hands alone to labor brings.
’T is only this which honors man;...
From the German by Lord Bulwer-Lytton
“TAKE the world,” cried the God from his heaven
To men—“I proclaim you its heirs;
To divide it amongst you ’t is given:
You have only to settle the shares.”
Each takes for himself as it pleases,
Old and...
