https://sonett.fontane-place.de/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:25:00 +0000 MyBB https://sonett.fontane-place.de/showthread.php?tid=17650 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:43:19 +0200 ZaunköniG]]> https://sonett.fontane-place.de/showthread.php?tid=17650 Who rules the world with sceptre still unknown?
Who, above all, should we devoutly own
As leader, and our gladdest tribute pay?

The sword no longer holds its iron sway,
The monarch in tradition sits alone;
The growth of man in a child's eyes is shown,
And whoso leads the child, leads us to-day.

Administrator of man's highest power,
His noblest art, his first prerogative,
And the most blessed joy in life - to give!

Give the mind truth, like water to a flower;
So gives the teacher. Praise and tribute bring -
The teacher is the leader and the king!]]> Who rules the world with sceptre still unknown?
Who, above all, should we devoutly own
As leader, and our gladdest tribute pay?

The sword no longer holds its iron sway,
The monarch in tradition sits alone;
The growth of man in a child's eyes is shown,
And whoso leads the child, leads us to-day.

Administrator of man's highest power,
His noblest art, his first prerogative,
And the most blessed joy in life - to give!

Give the mind truth, like water to a flower;
So gives the teacher. Praise and tribute bring -
The teacher is the leader and the king!]]> https://sonett.fontane-place.de/showthread.php?tid=17649 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:34:46 +0200 ZaunköniG]]> https://sonett.fontane-place.de/showthread.php?tid=17649 Vanguard of progress! Heralds of the time!
Guardians of industry and art sublime!
Leaders of man down all the brightening years.

To them the danger - to their wives the tears -
While we sit safely in the city's grime
In old-world trammels of distress and crime,
Playing with words and thoughts, with doubts and fears.

Children of axe and gun! Ye take to-day
The baby steps of man's first feeblest age!
While we, thought-seekers of the printed page,

We lead the world down its untrodden way!
Ours the drear wastes and leagues of empty waves,
The lonely deaths, the undiscovered graves.]]> Vanguard of progress! Heralds of the time!
Guardians of industry and art sublime!
Leaders of man down all the brightening years.

To them the danger - to their wives the tears -
While we sit safely in the city's grime
In old-world trammels of distress and crime,
Playing with words and thoughts, with doubts and fears.

Children of axe and gun! Ye take to-day
The baby steps of man's first feeblest age!
While we, thought-seekers of the printed page,

We lead the world down its untrodden way!
Ours the drear wastes and leagues of empty waves,
The lonely deaths, the undiscovered graves.]]> https://sonett.fontane-place.de/showthread.php?tid=17648 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:28:31 +0200 ZaunköniG]]> https://sonett.fontane-place.de/showthread.php?tid=17648 Hast hung in the hot sky with fountains streaming,
Cool marble domes, and palms fronds waving, gleaming,
Vision of rest and peace to end the day!

Now he is weariest, alone, astray,
Spent with long labour led by thy sweet seeming,
Faint as the breath of nature's lightest dreaming
Thou waverest and vanishest away!

Can Nature dream? Is God's great sky deceiving?
Where joy like that the clouds above us show
Be sure the counterpart must lie below,

Sweeter than hope - more blessed than believing!
We lose the fair reflection of our home
Because so near its gates our feet have come!]]> Hast hung in the hot sky with fountains streaming,
Cool marble domes, and palms fronds waving, gleaming,
Vision of rest and peace to end the day!

Now he is weariest, alone, astray,
Spent with long labour led by thy sweet seeming,
Faint as the breath of nature's lightest dreaming
Thou waverest and vanishest away!

Can Nature dream? Is God's great sky deceiving?
Where joy like that the clouds above us show
Be sure the counterpart must lie below,

Sweeter than hope - more blessed than believing!
We lose the fair reflection of our home
Because so near its gates our feet have come!]]>