VOTIVE TABLETS

[Under this title Schiller arranged that more dignified and
philosophical portion of the small Poems published as Epigrams in the
_Musen Almanach_; which rather sought to point a general thought, than
a personal satire.--Many of these, however, are either wholly without
interest for the English reader, or express in almost untranslatable
laconism what, in far more poetical shapes, Schiller has elsewhere
repeated and developed. We, therefore, content ourselves with such a
selection as appears to us best suited to convey a fair notion of the
object and spirit of the class.--Translator]

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MOTTO TO THE VOTIVE TABLETS.

What the God taught--what has befriended all
Life's ways, I place upon the Votive Wall.

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THE GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

(ZWEIERLEI WIRKUNGSARTEN)