 Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true : He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. Thus here, by dangers girt, shall glide away Of childhood, manhood, age, the vigorous day:...  Studies in German Literature - Page 380by Bayard Taylor - 1879 - 421 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1872 - 996 pages
...: Be only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. Thus here, by dangers girt, shall glide away Of childhood, manhood, age, the vigorous...fain would see Stand on free soil among a people free !" If our Faust dies in uttering this purpose, his life-work lives and grows after him, and tells on... | |
 | John George Robertson - 1972 - 180 pages
...anew. So here, by dangers girt, youth, manhood, age, Shall live a vigorous life from year to year ; And such a throng I fain would see Stand on free soil among a people free. Then to the moment I might say : Linger a while, thou art so fair ! The traces of my earthly life Cannot... | |
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