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Ye in the age gone by	A
Who ruled the world a world how lovely then	B
And guided still the steps of happy men	B
In the light leading strings of careless joy	C
Ah flourished then your service of delight	D
How different oh how different in the day	E
When thy sweet fanes with many a wreath were bright	D
O Venus Amathusia	F
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Then through a veil of dreams	G
Woven by song truth's youthful beauty glowed	H
And life's redundant and rejoicing streams	G
Gave to the soulless soul where'r they flowed	H
Man gifted nature with divinity	I
To lift and link her to the breast of love	J
All things betrayed to the initiate eye	A
The track of gods above	J
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Where lifeless fixed afar	K
A flaming ball to our dull sense is given	L
Phoebus Apollo in his golden car	K
In silent glory swept the fields of heaven	L
On yonder hill the Oread was adored	M
In yonder tree the Dryad held her home	N
And from her urn the gentle Naiad poured	M
The wavelet's silver foam	N
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Yon bay chaste Daphne wreathed	M
Yon stone was mournful Niobe's mute cell	O
Low through yon sedges pastoral Syrinx breathed	M
And through those groves wailed the sweet Philomel	O
The tears of Ceres swelled in yonder rill	O
Tears shed for Proserpine to Hades borne	P
And for her lost Adonis yonder hill	O
Heard Cytherea mourn	P
	-
Heaven's shapes were charmed unto	M
The mortal race of old Deucalion	P
Pyrrha's fair daughter humanly to woo	M
Came down in shepherd guise Latona's son	P
Between men heroes gods harmonious then	P
Love wove sweet links and sympathies divine	P
Blest Amathusia heroes gods and men	P
Equals before thy shrine	P
	-
Not to that culture gay	E
Stern self denial or sharp penance wan	P
Well might each heart be happy in that day	E
For gods the happy ones were kin to man	P
The beautiful alone the holy there	Q
No pleasure shamed the gods of that young race	R
So that the chaste Camoenae favoring were	S
And the subduing grace	R
	-
A palace every shrine	P
Your sports heroic yours the crown	P
Of contests hallowed to a power divine	P
As rushed the chariots thundering to renown	P
Fair round the altar where the incense breathed	M
Moved your melodious dance inspired and fair	Q
Above victorious brows the garland wreathed	M
Sweet leaves round odorous hair	Q
	-
The lively Thyrsus swinger	S
And the wild car the exulting panthers bore	T
Announced the presence of the rapture bringer	T
Bounded the Satyr and blithe Faun before	T
And Maenads as the frenzy stung the soul	O
Hymned in their maddening dance the glorious wine	P
As ever beckoned to the lusty bowl	O
The ruddy host divine	P
	-
Before the bed of death	U
No ghastly spectre stood but from the porch	F
Of life the lip one kiss inhaled the breath	U
And the mute graceful genius lowered a torch	F
The judgment balance of the realms below	O
A judge himself of mortal lineage held	M
The very furies at the Thracian's woe	O
Were moved and music spelled	M
	-
In the Elysian grove	V
The shades renewed the pleasures life held dear	T
The faithful spouse rejoined remembered love	J
And rushed along the meads the charioteer	T
There Linus poured the old accustomed strain	P
Admetus there Alcestis still could greet his	W
Friend there once more Orestes could regain	P
His arrows Philoctetes	W
	-
More glorious than the meeds	W
That in their strife with labor nerved the brave	X
To the great doer of renowned deeds	W
The Hebe and the heaven the Thunderer gave	X
Before the rescued rescuer of the dead	M
Bowed down the silent and immortal host	M
And the twain stars their guiding lustre shed	M
On the bark tempest tossed	M
	-
Art thou fair world no more	T
Return thou virgin bloom on Nature's face	W
Ah only on the minstrel's magic shore	T
Can we the footstep of sweet fable trace	W
The meadows mourn for the old hallowing life	Y
Vainly we search the earth of gods bereft	M
Where once the warm and living shapes were rife	Y
Shadows alone are left	M
	-
Cold from the north has gone	P
Over the flowers the blast that killed their May	E
And to enrich the worship of the one	P
A universe of gods must pass away	E
Mourning I search on yonder starry steeps	W
But thee no more Selene there I see	W
And through the woods I call and o'er the deeps	W
And Echo answers me	W
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Deaf to the joys she gives	W
Blind to the pomp of which she is possessed	M
Unconscious of the spiritual power that lives	W
Around and rules her by our bliss unblessed	M
Dull to the art that colors or creates	W
Like the dead timepiece godless nature creeps	W
Her plodding round and by the leaden weights	W
The slavish motion keeps	W
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To morrow to receive	Z
New life she digs her proper grave to day	M
And icy moons with weary sameness weave	Z
From their own light their fulness and decay	M
Home to the poet's land the gods are flown	P
Light use in them that later world discerns	W
Which the diviner leading strings outgrown	P
On its own axle turns	W
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Home and with them are gone	P
The hues they gazed on and the tones they heard	M
Life's beauty and life's melody alone	P
Broods o'er the desolate void the lifeless word	M
Yet rescued from time's deluge still they throng	A2
Unseen the Pindus they were wont to cherish	F
All that which gains immortal life in song	A2
To mortal life must perish	F

Friedrich Schiller

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