The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions . is first play, The Robbers(1782), he left the army and went to Mannheim, Leipsic, Dresden, Jena, andWeimar, where he became the firm friend of Goethe. From 1789 to 1799Schiller held a professorship at Jena, and during this period published TheHistory of the Thirty Years War. He died at Weimar, May 9, 1805, of anaffection of the lungs. Besides the works already mentioned, Schiller wroteThe History of the Revo
The International library of famous literature : selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes and with introductions . is first play, The Robbers(1782), he left the army and went to Mannheim, Leipsic, Dresden, Jena, andWeimar, where he became the firm friend of Goethe. From 1789 to 1799Schiller held a professorship at Jena, and during this period published TheHistory of the Thirty Years War. He died at Weimar, May 9, 1805, of anaffection of the lungs. Besides the works already mentioned, Schiller wroteThe History of the Revolt of the Netherlands ; the dramas Mary Stuart,Maid of Orleans, Bride of Messina, William Tell ; and the trilogy of Wallenstein. Among his lyric pieces are : The Ring of Polycrates, TheDiver, The Knight of Toggenburg, and The Song of the Bell.] Vivos voco — Mortuos plango — Fulgura frango. Fast in its prison walls of earth Awaits the mold of baked clay! Up, comrades ! up, and aid the birth — The Bell that shall be born to-day ! Who would honor obtain, With his sweat and his painThe praise that man gives to the Master must buy;But the blessing withal must descend from on high!. VOICES OF THE TOCSINFrom a painting by A. Maignan THE SONG OF THE BELL. 7395 And well an earnest word beseemsThe work the earnest hand prepares;Its load more light the labor deemsWhen sweet discourse the labor let us ponder, not in vain,What strength can work when labor wills!For who would not the fool disdainWho neer designs what he fulfills ?And well it stamps our Human Race,(And hence the gift — To understand)That Man within the heart should traceWhateer he fashions with the hand. ii. From the fir the fagot take! Keep it, heap it, hard and dry! That the gathered flame may break Through the furnace, wroth and high. When the copper within Seethes and simmers, the tinPour quick! that the fluid which feeds the BellMay flow in the right course glib and well. Deep hid within this nether cel
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