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The violin and its music, 1881
9 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 7. See the scan on archive.org.
1rise above the rest, another to fall back and softly to modulate the strain; what the one repeats the other but half expresses. If we think, too, of the accompanying music, we feel that this, on account of the multitude of voices, for which the instruments would not have been enough, must have been simple in the highest degree. These poets called themselves Nightingales, and certainly no comparison can express more strikingly than that of the song of birds, their rich and unattainable notes, in which, at every moment, the ancient warblings recur always with new modulations. In the fresh and youthful Minnepoesy, all art has acquired the appearance of nature, and is, too, in a certain sense, purely natural." Such were the Minnesingers, the predecessors of those mechanics in toil, and poets in repose, the Mastersingers.
3"As the weaver plied the shuttle, wove he too the mystic rhyme,
4And the smith his iron measures hammer'd, to the anvil's chime;
5Thanking God, whose boundless wisdom makes the flower of poesy bloom,
6In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom."
8Following the example of the Masons, who had formed themselves into a corporation,—the same which gave to Europe its sublime Gothic temples,—the artizans of all trades divided themselves into different societies. These incorporated mechanics met together, and, after the disposal of civic business, either read the chronicles of their country, or the ancient Nordic poems and erotic ballads. Such
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