Lanterna Rally

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781230437170

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... WILHELM MEISTER'S TRAVELS OR THE RENUNCIANTS A NOVEL To travel now th' Apprentice does essay, And every step is girt with doubt and danger: In truth he uses not to sing or pray; But is his path perplex'd, this toilsome ranger Does turn an earnest eye, when mist's above him, To his own heart, and to the hearts that love him. Scarce could tell you rightly Whether I 'm the same or not; If you task me very tightly: Yes, this is my sense you 've got; Sense that vexes, then assuages, Now too light, and now too dark, But in some few hundred pages May again come to the mark. Does Fortune try thee? She had cause to do't; She wish'd thee abstinent: obey, be mute! What, shap'st thou here at the world! 'tis shapen long ago The Maker shaped it, he thought it best even so: Thy lot is appointed, go follow its hest; Thy course is begun, thou must walk, and not rest; For sorrow and care cannot alter thy case; And running, not raging, will win thee the race. Enweri tells us, a most royal man, The deepest heart and highest head to scan: 'In every place, at every time, thy surest chance Lies in Decision, Justice, Tolerance.' My inheritance, how wide and fair! Time is my estate; to Time I 'm heir. Now it is Day; be doing every one! For the Night comcth, wherein work can none. vol.. II. And so I, in Tale adjoining, Lift old treasures into day; If not gold or perfect coining, They are metals anyway: Thou canst sort them, thou canst sunder, Thou canst melt and make them one Then take that with smiling wonder, Stamp it like thyself, my son. WILHELM MEISTER'S TRAVELS CHAPTER I THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT Wilhelm was sitting under the shadow of a huge crag, on a shaggy impressive spot, where the steep mountain-path turned abruptly round a corner down into the chasm. The...