THE INSTRUCTORS.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
10The Poems

WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel,

When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave, Oh, what noble lessons were those for the rash son of Philip,

Were not the lord of the world e'en for instruction too great!

                                1789.*

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