<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Garlands</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">KLOPSTOCK would lead us away from Pindus; no longer for laurel<br>May we be eager--the homely acorn alone must content us;<br>Yet he himself his more-than-epic crusade is conducting<br>High on Golgotha's summit, that foreign gods he may honour!<br>Yet, on what hill he prefers, let him gather the angels together,<br>Suffer deserted disciples to weep o'er the grave of the just one:<br>There where a hero and saint hath died, where a bard breath'd his numbers,<br>Both for our life and our death an ensample of courage resplendent<br>And of the loftiest human worth to bequeath,--ev'ry nation<br>There will joyously kneel in devotion ecstatic, revering<br>Thorn and laurel garland, and all its charms and its tortures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418781" data-title="The Garlands de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="KLOPSTOCK would lead us away from Pindus; no longer for laurel May we be eager--the homely acorn alone must content us; Yet he himself his more-than-epic crusade is conducting High on Golgotha's summit, that foreign gods he may honour! Yet, on wha..."></div> </div> </div>

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