From: The Dial, Vol. I, No. IV (April 1841).
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Published: Weeks Jordan and Company 1841 Boston
ON THE MARBLE BUST OF SCHILLER. B. And should the marble which lives through centuries
Where is the graceful pensiveness of the eyelids?
Where the sweet tremulousness of the mouth?
Where the refinement, the tender sensibility,
The exquisite loveliness of posture and feature?
Loftiness and antique majesty are here,
But I find not my friend in his domestic character.
Chronicle the fleeting interest of the Day?
Let it rather speak the eternal language
Of human nature in its noble simplicity.
This is not Schiller, your companion and friend,
But Schiller the Poet, his country’s glory—
Therefore is it proud, majestic and powerful,
Expressing his Genius, not his character.
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