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Friedrich Schiller - The German Art
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By no kind Augustus reared,
To no Medici endeared,
  German art arose;
Fostering glory smiled not on her,
Ne`er with kingly smiles to sun her,
  Did her blooms unclose.

No,—she went by monarchs slighted
Went unhonored, unrequited,
  From high Frederick`s throne;
Praise and pride be all the greater,
That man`s genius did create her,
  From man`s worth alone.

Therefore, all from loftier mountains,
Purer wells and richer fountains,
  Streams our poet-art;
So no rule to curb its rushing—
All the fuller flows it gushing
  From its deep—the heart!
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