The Teachers
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What time Diogenes, unmoved and still,
Lay in his tub, and bask'd him in the sun --
What time Calanus clomb, with lightsome step
And smiling cheek, up to his fiery tomb --
What rare examples there for Philip's son
To curb his overmastering lust of sway,
But that the Lord of the majestic world
Was all too great for lessons even like these!
M.
Source Book
Poems And Ballads Of Goethe
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated by
William Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. ("A.")
and Theodore Martin ("M.")
Copyright 1859
Published by Delisser & Procter
508 Broadway, New York
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