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The German Art.

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By no kind Augustus reared,     To no Medici endeared,     German art arose;     Fostering glory smiled not on her,     Ne'er with kingly smiles to sun her,     Did her blooms unclose.     No, she went by monarchs slighted     Went unhonored, unrequited,     From high Frederick's throne;     Praise and pride be all the greater,     That man's genius did create her,     From man's worth alone.     Therefore, all from loftier mountains,     Purer wells and richer fountains,     Streams our poet-art;     So no rule to curb its rushing     All the fuller flows it gushing     From its deep the heart!

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