. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. TO GOETHE. Teutonic leader, — in the foremost fileOf that picked corps, whose rapture t is to feelWith subtler closer sense all woe and weal,And forge the feeling into rhythmic pileOf words, so tuned they sing the sigh and smileOf all humanity, — meek didst thou kneelAt Natures pious altars, midst the pealOf prophet-organs, thy great self the whileAll ear and eye, thou greatest of the band,Whose voices waked their brooding Luther-land, •At last left lone in Weimar, famed through thee,Wearing with stately grace thy triple crownOf scien

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. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. TO GOETHE. Teutonic leader, — in the foremost fileOf that picked corps, whose rapture t is to feelWith subtler closer sense all woe and weal,And forge the feeling into rhythmic pileOf words, so tuned they sing the sigh and smileOf all humanity, — meek didst thou kneelAt Natures pious altars, midst the pealOf prophet-organs, thy great self the whileAll ear and eye, thou greatest of the band,Whose voices waked their brooding Luther-land, •At last left lone in Weimar, famed through thee,Wearing with stately grace thy triple crownOf science, statesmanship, and poesy,Enrobed in age and love and rare renown. Germany, in her-twenty centuries of vigor-ous life, has been rich in men, many of themmen in whom fermented^ so much of the finermarrow of humanity, that their individual beingand doing was the flaming of a light, strongenough to be a new illumination, not to Ger-many ^ merely, but to Christendom. Of thiseffulgent class of Germans there is but oneman whose life-work exerc

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