Ask, why is it that thou wert not long ago destroyed?

Why wert thou not drowned in Yarmouth Roads; killed in the fight when the ship was taken by the Sallee man of war; devoured by the wild beasts on the coast of Africa; or drowned here, when all the crew perished but thyself?

As thou wert erewhile wont my sight to bless, So to console, my mind thou now dost fly; Hope therefore stills the pangs of memory, Which, coupled with desire, my soul distress.

He flung it from him, far ahead, And never spake he more, But"Pass thou first, thou dauntless heart, As thou wert wont of yore!"

That fought so well for Spain; I'd rather half my land were gone, So that thou wert here again!"

That they rarely purchase friends, thou didst soon discover, when thou wert left to stand thy trial uncountenanced and alone.

On approaching the house I saw a colored man, to whom I said, 'Where wert thou raised?' 'In Washington.' 'Did Henry Clay buy thee there?' 'Wilt thou shew me his improved cattle?'

'Where wert thou raised?' 'Washington.'

And he said to his companion: Daughter, I was right, and thou wert wrong.

But thou wert the son of a mighty King, and I was only a Bráhmani, a poor man's daughter, and my father was an old ascetic, far below thee in everything else, but caste.

And then one day I was seen by thee, standing still in that very door, with my pitcher on my head: as thou wert passing through the wood to hunt upon thy horse.

And I was standing like an idol, dressed like the queen of a chakrawarti, loaded with gold on wrists and feet, with great pearls wound about my neck; and thou wert contemplating me, thy creature, with intoxication, and hard indeed it was to tell, which of us two was the idol, and which was the devotee.

Thou art ready to cry all day long, 'I have left undone that which I ought to have done;' till, at times, thou longest that all was over, and thou wert beginning again in some freer, fuller, nobler, holier life, to do and to be what thou hast never done nor been here; and criest with the poet 'Tis life, whereof my nerves are scant; 'Tis life, not death, for which I pant; More life, and fuller, that I want.

I know not if I could have borne To see thy beauties fade; The night that followed such a morn Had worn a deeper shade: Thy day without a cloud hath past, And thou wert lovely to the last, Extinguished, not decayed; As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high.

For since that morning when thou first wert here, The sorrow and the anguish that thou heard'st Have grown until the woe has covered all.

Deposed, stript bare of all thy dignity And power, amid the taunting of thy foes, Thou wert let drop into obscurity.

Wert thou another being, then, when thou Eight years ago pursuedst thy march with fire, And sword, and desolation, through the Circles Of Germany, the universal scourge, Didst mock all ordinances of the empire, The fearful rights of strength alone exertedst, Trampledst to earth each rank, each magistracy, All to extend thy Sultan's domination? Then was the time to break thee in, to curb Thy haughty will, to teach thee ordinance.

Remember, thou takest on thee the command Of those same Spanish regiments,constantly Make preparation, and be never ready; And if they urge thee to draw out against me, Still answer YES, and stand as thou wert fetter'd; I know that it is doing thee a service To keep thee out of action in this business.

Beseems it me to offer such persuasion To thee, who like the fix'd star of the pole Wert all I gazed at on life's trackless ocean?

Thou wert cut off on the march, surrounded by the Hessians, and didst fight thy way with an hundred and eighty men through their thousand.

Thou wert among the volunteers that seized and made booty of the Swedish battery at Altenburg.

There came to hand a letter from the Emperor Commanding us collectively, from thee All duties of obedience to withdraw, Because thou wert an enemy and traitor.

I will tell thee How when at Prague, our winter quarters, thou Wert brought into my tent a tender boy, Not yet accustom'd to the German winters; Thy hand was frozen to the heavy colors; Thou wouldst not let them go.

Der pädagogische Wert der Menschenerkenntnis und der Kulturwert der Pädagoglk; zehn Vorträge gehalten in Arnheim vom 17.

Der pädagogische Wert der Menschenerkenntnis und der Kulturwert der Pädagogik.