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46 .A SCHILLER-PEST , .
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silvery makers , anchor with the the mig chasseurs hty boot ; with the sailors green ( in spri red gs Jerseys in their !) with Tyrol a -
like "butchers hats ; in the white ; firemen and , with ink their , striped helmets blouses and , resi uniform gning ; their the very
traditional , blue , if I remember p right , to the bakers . The order and quiet with which these denied , —dismounting _^ some of them , from
marvellous equipages of the masquing kind , ( one , a huge boat on or wheel unobtrusiveness s , for instance , of ) was very police striking or civic ; and authorities the general dissi absence pated
was received came ideas from of a forei band gn any of arr men angements clad in brown . All the holland interference blouses , th with ere
green , sprigs in their caps , who belonged to some kind of athletic club , and " kept the ground" by simply linking their hands togeseemed inclined to
ther to form a living barrier whenever the mob turesque press too members -closely . When of the nearl pageant y all came were on assembled the scene , the —a most hundred
pic-, maidens clothed in snowy white , with wreaths of green on each uncovered headt some score of the very tiny oneswho had
pink garlands , , and excep each wearing the national roth-sehwartz , -gold in form of a scarf , varied , however , in some cases , by other colours .
These were to be the nominal unveilers of the statue , and all appeared with tiny bouquets to throw at the feet of the hero of the
day Then . came some inevitable speeches from divers officials ; and
downwards then , amidst and the the deafening brilliant burst bronze of song statue , the ( shining covering with sank a golden slowly
lustre that , our English bronze never seems to achieve ) stood revealed on its marble pedestal . A cloud of bouquets fell
around it from every grey side , some lodging , some _reboLinding to be again- launched upwards till the " shower of flowers" seemed no
metap Then hor the . chorus burst forth again , sometimes mingling Schiller's
name with its song , sometimes giving enthusiastic utterance , on this the festival of the Poet of Freedom , to the longing wish
breathed in one of the songs , — " Heil Dass dem wir . bal Einem d im Deutsclien Jubel singen Land , ! "
As one felt more strongly each moment , how deep and genuine was the love and reverence of the people for " the People ' s Poet , " than with the
I think a tear must have come to more one eye thoug of his ht . strugg of him le , who remembering had paced those how have one very -tenth streets of in his the the difficulties bitterness sum now
lavished on his memory would swept away ; one-tenth of the love now poured out before him , have cheered and how gladdened he himself his short looked life forwar . It is d a with melanchol comfort y to pleasure some such to remember prospect When think
of tardy justice , when , writing in 1784 _, he said , " I
46 .A Schiller-Pest , .
46 . A SCHILLER-PEST , .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/46/
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