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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393329" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Genius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Do I believe,&quot; sayest thou, &quot;what the masters of wisdom would teach me,<br> And what their followers' band boldly and readily swear?<br>Cannot I ever attain to true peace, excepting through knowledge,<br> Or is the system upheld only by fortune and law?<br>Must I distrust the gently-warning impulse, the precept<br> That thou, Nature, thyself hast in my bosom impressed,<br>Till the schools have affixed to the writ eternal their signet,<br> Till a mere formula's chain binds down the fugitive soul?<br>Answer me, then! for thou hast down into these deeps e'en descended,--<br> Out of the mouldering grave thou didst uninjured return.<br>Is't to thee known what within the tomb of obscure works is hidden,<br> Whether, yon mummies amid, life's consolations can dwell?<br>Must I travel the darksome road? The thought makes me tremble;<br> Yet I will travel that road, if 'tis to truth and to right.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friend, hast thou heard of the golden age? Full many a story<br> Poets have sung in its praise, simply and touchingly sung--<br>Of the time when the holy still wandered over life's pathways,--<br> When with a maidenly shame every sensation was veiled,--<br>When the mighty law that governs the sun in his orbit,<br> And that, concealed in the bud, teaches the point how to move,<br>When necessity's silent law, the steadfast, the changeless,<br> Stirred up billows more free, e'en in the bosom of man,--<br>When the sense, unerring, and true as the hand of the dial,<br> Pointed only to truth, only to what was eternal?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then no profane one was seen, then no initiate was met with,<br> And what as living was felt was not then sought 'mongst the dead;<br>Equally clear to every breast was the precept eternal,<br> Equally hidden the source whence it to gladden us sprang;<br>But that happy period has vanished! And self-willed presumption<br> Nature's godlike repose now has forever destroyed.<br>Feelings polluted the voice of the deities echo no longer,<br> In the dishonored breast now is the oracle dumb.<br>Save in the silenter self, the listening soul cannot find it,<br> There does the mystical word watch o'er the meaning divine;<br>There does the searcher conjure it, descending with bosom unsullied;<br> There does the nature long-lost give him back wisdom again.<br>If thou, happy one, never hast lost the angel that guards thee,<br> Forfeited never the kind warnings that instinct holds forth;<br>If in thy modest eye the truth is still purely depicted;<br> If in thine innocent breast clearly still echoes its call;<br>If in thy tranquil mind the struggles of doubt still are silent,<br> If they will surely remain silent forever as now;<br>If by the conflict of feelings a judge will ne'er be required;<br> If in its malice thy heart dims not the reason so clear,<br>Oh, then, go thy way in all thy innocence precious!<br> Knowledge can teach thee in naught; thou canst instruct her in much!<br>Yonder law, that with brazen staff is directing the struggling,<br> Naught is to thee. What thou dost, what thou mayest will is thy law,<br>And to every race a godlike authority issues.<br> What thou with holy hand formest, what thou with holy mouth speakest,<br>Will with omnipotent power impel the wondering senses;<br> Thou but observest not the god ruling within thine own breast,<br>Not the might of the signet that bows all spirits before thee;<br> Simple and silent thou goest through the wide world thou hast won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Friedrich+Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a><div class=q>
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