THE STATUE OVER THE CATHEDRAL DOOR. Yet I saw but one among them Who hath soothed my soul with love. In his mantle, -wound about him, And so stands he calm and childlike, I would be like him, a child! And my songs,-green leaves and blossoms,To the doors of heaven would bear, Calling, even in storm and tempest, Round me still these birds of air. THE LEGEND OF THE CROSSBILL. FROM THE GERMAN OF JULIUS MOSEN. ON the cross the dying Saviour And by all the world forsaken, Sees he how with zealous care At the ruthless nail of iron A little bird is striving there. Stained with blood and never tiring, And the Saviour speaks in mildness: "Blest be thou of all the good! Bear, as token of this moment, Marks of blood and holy rood!" And that bird is called the crossbill; In the groves of pine it singeth Songs, like legends, strange to hear. Thou little, youthful maiden, Come unto my great heart; My heart, and the sea, and the heaven, Are melting away with love! POETIC APHORISMS. FROM THE SINNGEDICHTE OF FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU.-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, MONEY. WHEREUNTO is money good? Who has it not wants hardihood, Who has it has much trouble and care, Who once has had it has despair. THE BEST MEDICINES. Joy and Temperance and Repose SIN. Man-like is it to fall into sin, POVERTY AND BLINDNESS. A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is ; For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees. LAW OF LIFE. Live I, so live I, To my Lord heartily, To my Prince faithfully, To my Neighbour honestly, Die I, so die I. POETIC APHORISMS. CREEDS. Lutheran, Popish, Calvinistic, all these creeds and doctrines three THE RESTLESS HEART. A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round; If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. CHRISTIAN LOVE. Whilom Love was like a fire, and warmth and comfort it bespoke ; ART AND TACT. Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; RETRIBUTION. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. TRUTH. When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire, RHYMES. If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' ears, They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs; For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own, They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known. |