PRELUDE. THE POET, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLERPoet's Biography
First Line: Still fragrant of the spring for ever Last Line: The rarest recompense of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
STILL fragrant of the spring for ever, While times and generations fade, The wreath of laureate endeavour Blooms in the song the initiate poet has made; Ancestral virtue still unsleeping He tends for kingdoms yet to be, And incorruptibly is keeping The gates of immortality; And through the poet still is given The rarest recompense of heaven.