Where Love no more their foolish brains can steal.
He who knows this, knows me, and what I feel.”
On the Death of Pindar
One of Platen’s sonnets deals with an incident, referred to in an earlier page, namely, the death of the poet Pindar in the theatre, in the arms of his young friend Theoxenos:—
“Oh! when I die, would I might fade away
Like the pale stars, swiftly and silently,
Would that death’s messenger might come to me,
As once it came to Pindar—so they say.
Not that I would in Life, or in my Verse,
With him, the great Incomparable, compare;