Observe them, but ne'er touch them as they bloom,--
Plant them, but only for the distant sight.
Created only to enchant the eye,
In faded beauty at thy feet they'll lie,
The nearer thee, the nearer their long night!

FOOTNOTES:

[9] This concluding and fine strophe is omitted in the later editions
of Schiller's "Poems."

[10] Hercules who recovered from the Shades Alcestis, after she had
given her own life to save her husband, Admetus. Alcestis, in the hands
of Euripides (that woman-hater as he is called!) becomes the loveliest
female creation in the Greek drama.

[11] i. e. Castor and Pollux are transferred to the stars, Hercules to
Olympus, for their deeds on earth.

[12] Carlyle's Miscellanies, vol. iii, p. 47.

[13] Literally "Nierensteiner,"--a wine not much known in England,
and scarcely--according to our experience--worth the regrets of its
respectable owner.

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