Part 25 (2/2)

Tell me all that thou knowest, and I will thankfully hear it!

But wouldst thou give me thyself,--let me, my friend, be excused!

TO ----

Wouldst thou teach me the truth? Don't take the trouble! I wish not, Through thee, the thing to observe,--but to see thee through the thing.

TO ----

Thee would I choose as my teacher and friend. Thy living example Teaches me,--thy teaching word wakens my heart unto life.

THE PRESENT GENERATION.

Was it always as now? This race I truly can't fathom.

Nothing is young but old age; youth, alas! only is old.

TO THE MUSE.

What I had been without thee, I know not--yet, to my sorrow See I what, without thee, hundreds and thousands now are.

THE LEARNED WORKMAN.

Ne'er does he taste the fruit of the tree that he raised with such trouble; Nothing but taste e'er enjoys that which by learning is reared.

THE DUTY OF ALL.

Ever strive for the whole; and if no whole thou canst make thee, Join, then, thyself to some whole, as a subservient limb!

A PROBLEM.

Let none resemble another; let each resemble the highest!

How can that happen? let each be all complete in itself.

THE PECULIAR IDEAL.

What thou thinkest, belongs to all; what thou feelest, is thine only.

Wouldst thou make him thine own, feel thou the G.o.d whom thou thinkest!

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