First published at 21:15 UTC on May 13th, 2023.
Chapter XIII:
Erde mag zurück in Erde stäuben;
Fliegt der Geist doch aus dem morschen Haus.
Seine Asche mag der Sturmwind treiben,
Sein Leben dauert ewig aus!
Elegie.
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Tribune, in this case, is likely here to mean not a popular leader o…
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Chapter XIII:
Erde mag zurück in Erde stäuben;
Fliegt der Geist doch aus dem morschen Haus.
Seine Asche mag der Sturmwind treiben,
Sein Leben dauert ewig aus!
Elegie.
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Tribune, in this case, is likely here to mean not a popular leader or champion of the people, but a raised area or gallery with seats.
fuliginous: sooty, dusky
circumfuse: pour a liquid so as to cause it to surround something
"as men, before they die, see and comprehend the enigmas hidden from them before" has a footnote attached to it: The greatest poet, and one of the noblest thinkers, of the last age, said, on his death-bed, "Many things obscure to me before, now clear up, and become visible." -See the "Life of Schiller."
And finally, FINALLY, we are given the sex of the child: a daughter.
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