[197] Lit. "the essentially-and-for-itself-necessary."
[198] Hölderlin, and of course Goethe no less than Schiller, would be included. With our moderns such as Swinburne the admission is less obvious than the qualification.
[199] Die Aufklärung. That is, the end of the eighteenth century; usually translated as illumination or enlightenment.
[200] Verstand, the faculty of science and common sense.
What! doth this same stillness tell me sadly
All I know of Him who voiced creation?
Dark as e'en the veil that hides Him from me
Is my heart's salute of resignation.
Since the gods were then more human
Men were more in image godlike.
Wrested from the flood of Time's abysses
Saved they float above high Pindus now;
All that was immortal life within them
Lives in song, all other life must go.