• [240] Shakespeare’s Strumpf.

    (Bei Gelegenheit eines Leipziger Festes, wo man mit einer
    Schillerschen Weste Götzendienst trieb.)

    Hochgesprungen, lautgesungen!
         Wenn verschimmelt auch und dumpf,...

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                I. Sonnet irrégulier


                No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
                Shakespeare, sonnet CXXIII

            O temps ! ô conquérant ! te voici vaincu, toi
            L’invincible, toi qui gardes un front tranquille !
            Tu te vantes que tout change. Certes. Mais moi
            Pourtant,...

  • The Soul of man is larger than the sky,
    Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark
    Of the unfathomed centre. Like that ark,
    Which in its sacred hold uplifted high,
    O’er the drowned hills, the human family,
    And stock reserved of every living kind,
    So, in the compass of the single mind,
    The seeds and pregnant forms in essence lie,
    That...