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...Thou hast said once: ' I am with him who is alone. Move the rock and ye will find me, kindle the wood and I am there.' But to find Thee in stone and wood means the will to seek Thee, the capacity to see Thee. And today most men neither want nor know how to find Thee...
...back to the eighteenth century or the Italian Renaissance, it is obvious that in our day and generation, the Classics are somewhat in eclipse. But there have been times when the clouds were even more thickly about them. As Odysseus remarked to his soul, "Bear it, brave heart; thou hast borne harder things than this." To those who know what treasures are laid up in the literatures of Greece and Rome, what opportunities for a culture at once nobly aristocratic and broadly human, there is no question that however long deferred, the day of the ancients will come again...
...Hast thou considered him who calls the judgment...
...ancient College, that so long hast bred...
Schumann-Frauenliebe und Leben, op. 42. I, Seit ich ihn gesehen; II, Er, der herrlichste von allen; III, Du Ring an Meinem Finger; IV, Helft mir, ihr Schwestern; V, Susser Freund, du blickest mich verwundert an; VI, An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust; VII, Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz gethan...