Honors

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Title:     Honors
Author: Frederich Schiller [More Titles by Schiller]

[Dignities would be the better title, if the word were not so essentially unpoetical.]

When the column of light on the waters is glassed,
As blent in one glow seem the shine and the stream;
But wave after wave through the glory has passed,
Just catches, and flies as it catches, the beam
So honors but mirror on mortals their light;
Not the man but the place that he passes is bright.

[The end]
Frederich Schiller's poem: Honors

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