Frederick Beiser - Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination - Reviewed by Robert Wicks, The University of Auckland - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame

Frederick Beiser - Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination - Reviewed by Robert Wicks, The University of Auckland - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame: "Frederick Beiser
Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination"

Modern History Sourcebook: J. C. Friedrich Von Schiller: Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man, 1794

Modern History Sourcebook: J. C. Friedrich Von Schiller: Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man, 1794: "Modern History Sourcebook:
J. C. Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805):
Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man, 1794"

Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man: The Origins of the Postmodern Sublime in the Ethical Evaluation of the Aesthetic by Temenuga Trifonova

Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man: The Origins of the Postmodern Sublime in the Ethical Evaluation of the Aesthetic by Temenuga Trifonova: "Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man: The Origins of the Postmodern Sublime in the Ethical Evaluation of the Aesthetic"

Op-Ed Columnist - The Protocol Society - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - The Protocol Society - NYTimes.com: "The Protocol Society"

The Best Restaurant Music Ever Made - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com

The Best Restaurant Music Ever Made - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com: "1. Bop Tweed Two
2. Buena Vista Social Club
3. Classical Jazz Quartet Play Rachmoninov
4. David Russell plays Agustín Barrios Mangoré
5. Dexter Gordon: Ballads
6 .Getz/Gilberto (featuring A. C. Jobim)
7. Jacques Loussier Trio — Satie: Gymnopedies & Gnossiennes
8. Miles Davis — Kind of Blue
9. Sphere — Flightpath
10. Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall"

ScotiaMcLeod picks 'em for 2010 - The Globe and Mail

ScotiaMcLeod picks 'em for 2010 - The Globe and Mail: "ScotiaMcLeod picks 'em for 2010"

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory

The Best 5.1 Speaker Systems You Can Buy for $800 or Less

The Best 5.1 Speaker Systems You Can Buy for $800 or Less

Married (Happily) With Issues - NYTimes.com

Married (Happily) With Issues - NYTimes.com: "Page 123, from the seventh-century physician Li T’ung-hsuan Tzu:
1. Strike left and right as a brave general breaking through the enemy ranks.
2. Rise and suddenly plunge like a wild horse bucking through a mountain stream.
3. Push and pull out like a flock of seagulls playing on the waves.
4. Use deep thrusts and shallow teasing strokes, like a sparrow plucking pieces of rice.
5. Make shallow and then deeper thrusts in steady succession.
6. Push in slowly as a snake entering its hole.
7. Charge quickly like a frightened mouse running into its hole.
8. Hover and then strike like an eagle catching an elusive hare.
9. Rise up and then plunge down low like a great sailboat in a wild wind."

The 10 personalities that can help or hurt your meetings - The Globe and Mail

The 10 personalities that can help or hurt your meetings - The Globe and Mail: "The 10 personalities that can help or hurt your meetings"

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Battery Operated 'Train Station' Clock - Sears - Sears Canada: "Battery Operated 'Train Station' Clock
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battery operated, requires 1 'AA' battery (not included)
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Barron's Picks Top 10 Dividend Stocks | Wall Street Survivor University: "Barron's Picks Top 10 Dividend Stocks"

100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times

100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York Times: "Nonfiction"

How to Do Laundry While Traveling

How to Do Laundry While Traveling

Movie Review - The Sun - When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor - NYTimes.com

Movie Review - The Sun - When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor - NYTimes.com: "When Dusk Finally Settled on the Emperor"

Yield curve system claims to beat the markets - FP Trading Desk

Yield curve system claims to beat the markets - FP Trading Desk: "Yield curve system claims to beat the markets"

Berkshire buys Nestle, Exxon; ups Wal-Mart stake - Yahoo! News

Berkshire buys Nestle, Exxon; ups Wal-Mart stake - Yahoo! News: "Berkshire buys Nestle, Exxon; ups Wal-Mart stake"

Do-It-Yourself RV - NYTimes.com

Do-It-Yourself RV - NYTimes.com:
"Do-It-Yourself RV"

CNBC Stock Blog — Bear-Market Rally Has 'Turned Over': Elliot Wave's Hochberg — CNBC.com Investing News - CNBC Stock Blog - CNBC.com

CNBC Stock Blog — Bear-Market Rally Has 'Turned Over': Elliot Wave's
Hochberg — CNBC.com Investing News - CNBC Stock Blog - CNBC.com:
"This Bear-Market Rally Has 'Turned': Elliot Wave's Hochberg"
Nov 8, 2009

Oct 30, 30, 2009 Selling ramps up at RIM - The Globe and Mail

Selling ramps up at RIM - The Globe and Mail:

"Insider selling at Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM-T62.411.021.66%) has picked up.
Over the past three months, RIM officers and directors who are insiders sold, as
a group, 541,341 shares in the public market, net of any shares acquired through
the exercise of options or public-market purchases. Co-CEO James Balsillie was a
net seller of 438,490 shares while co-CEO and board member Michael Lazaridis was
a net seller of 126,152 shares during the period"

Charts Custom Indicators

Charts Custom Indicators:

"!!! McGinley Dynamic

ExpAvg12offset1 is expavg([close], 12, 1).

Dynamic is (expavg12offset1 + ([close] - expavg12offset1)) / (([close] / expavg12offset1) * 125)."

Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
(Click here for a live example of an Exponential Moving Average)

In order to reduce the lag in simple moving averages, technicians often use exponential moving averages (also called exponentially weighted moving averages). EMA's reduce the lag by applying more weight to recent prices relative to older prices. The weighting applied to the most recent price depends on the specified period of the moving average. The shorter the EMA's period, the more weight that will be applied to the most recent price. For example: a 10-period exponential moving average weighs the most recent price 18.18% while a 20-period EMA weighs the most recent price 9.52%. As we'll see, the calculating and EMA is much harder than calculating an SMA. The important thing to remember is that the exponential moving average puts more weight on recent prices. As such, it will react quicker to recent price changes than a simple moving average. Here's the calculation formula.

Exponential Moving Average Calculation
Exponential Moving Averages can be specified in two ways - as a percent-based EMA or as a period-based EMA. A percent-based EMA has a percentage as it's single parameter while a period-based EMA has a parameter that represents the duration of the EMA.

The formula for an exponential moving average is:


EMA(current) = ( (Price(current) - EMA(prev) ) x Multiplier) + EMA(prev)

For a percentage-based EMA, "Multiplier" is equal to the EMA's specified percentage. For a period-based EMA, "Multiplier" is equal to 2 / (1 + N) where N is the specified number of periods.

For example, a 10-period EMA's Multiplier is calculated like this:


(2 / (Time periods + 1) ) = (2 / (10 + 1) ) = 0.1818 (18.18%)

This means that a 10-period EMA is equivalent to an 18.18% EMA.

Note: StockCharts.com only support period-based EMA's.

Below is a table with the results of an exponential moving average calculation for Eastman Kodak. For the first period's exponential moving average, the simple moving average was used as the previous period's exponential moving average (yellow highlight for the 10th period). From period 11 onward, the previous period's EMA was used. The calculation in period 11 breaks down as follows:


(C - P) = (57.15 - 59.439) = -2.289


(C - P) x K = -2.289 x .181818 = -0.4162


( (C - P) x K) + P = -0.4162 + 59.439 = 59.023

Vixen... Another Jewel by Merwin

Vixen~ by W. S. Merwin

Comet of stillness princess of what is over

high note held without trembling without voice without sound

aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets

of the destroyed stories the escaped dreams the sentences

never caught in words warden of where the river went

touch of its surface sibyl of the extinguished

window onto the hidden place and the other time

at the foot of the wall by the road patient without waiting

in the full moonlight of autumn at the hour when I was born

you no longer go out like a flame at the sight of me

you are still warmer than the moonlight gleaming on you

even now you are unharmed even now perfect

as you have always been now when your light paws are running

on the breathless night on the bridge with one end I remember you

when I have heard you the soles of my feet have made answer

when I have seen you I have waked and slipped from the calendars

from the creeds of difference and the contradictions

that were my life and all the crumbling fabrications

as long as it lasted until something that we were

had ended when you are no longer anything

let me catch sight of you again going over the wall

and before the garden is extinct and the woods are figures

guttering on a screen let my words find their own

places in the silence after the animals

The Beam of a Lightless Star ~ Merwin

Another Pulitzer winner... this one - a two-timer

Winning one Pulitzer is amazing.. two is very rare

His book - The Shadow of Sirius was written without punctuation and in free verse, and its poems are among the most autobiographical of his career. They touch on themes of memory, wisdom and childhood.

He described the collection as having a first section about childhood and remembering childhood, “not from a distance, but from inside.” The middle section is a collection of elegies to dogs, and the final section is about later life.

For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me

And the silence will set out

Tireless traveller

Like the beam of a lightless star

Then I will no longer

Find myself in life as in a strange garment

Surprised at the earth

And the love of one woman

And the shamelessness of men

As today writing after three days of rain

Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease

And bowing not knowing to what

Just in case you sometimes wonder... what the heck is he talking about... here is my take..
The central idea of this poem is simple: each year contains the date on which the poet will finally die.

But the implications of this premise are complex. They involve nothing less than the total breakdown of conventional modes of understanding time. Viewing time sub specie aeteritatis... Merwin labels the linear sense of time as illusory.

The beam of a lightless star is in one sense a metaphor of his own language of silence, the silence of death, the silence on meaningless. A beam emanating from a lightless star also suggests that from a detached perspective a dead star can appear alive.

This is indeed a fine symbol of the eternal longing of all of us. It is a great symbol of time as relative in a world of absolute being.

Merwin perceives his death has already taken place in the precisely the same sense that the present exists externally.The temporal distinction is false.

In the second stanza, he sets up a new distinction to replace the old. He will no longer find himself in life as in a strange garment. He will lose his divisive perception that isolate him. He will no longer be surprised at the earth and the love of one woman.

It is finally to this human universe that Merwin must return.

Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

What is a poet?

An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart
but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over
them they sound like beautiful music.
~ Soren Kierkegaard

Tempeh and Bell Pepper Chili | WholeFoodsMarket.com

Tempeh and Bell Pepper Chili WholeFoodsMarket.com: "Serves 6
Tempeh is full of protein and flavor and makes for a great addition to juicy bell peppers, tender kidney
beans and tangy tomato sauce in this hearty chili. Serve with a few tortilla chips on the side.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 (8-ounce) package tempeh, crumbled
1 green bell pepper, cored, seeded and chopped
1 red bell pepper, cored, seeded and chopped
1 yellow bell pepper, cored, seeded and chopped
2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
Salt and white pepper to taste
3 cups cooked kidney beans, drained
2 (15-ounce) cans tomato sauce
2 to 3 tablespoons chili powder
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Crushed red pepper flakes to taste

Method
Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add tempeh, peppers, garlic, and salt and cook, stirring often, for 5 to 10 minutes.
Add beans, tomato sauce, 1 cup water, chili powder, bay leaf, cumin and red pepper flakes, stir well and simmer over low heat, covered, for 1/2 hour.

Remove and discard bay leaf and season with salt and pepper. Ladle chili into bowls and serve.
Nutrition
Per serving (about 12oz/339g-wt.): 290 calories (90 from fat), 10g total fat, 1.5g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol,
980mg sodium, 38g total carbohydrate (10g dietary fiber, 8g sugar), 18g protein"

Fashion Forward: Gerard Butler abides by the laws of shoe style - USATODAY.com

Fashion Forward: Gerard Butler abides by the laws of shoe style - USATODAY.com:

"On his feet: the Tsubo Phison sneaker. $130 at Tsubo.com"

Amazon.com: Leather Motorcycle Jackets Basic Biker Jacket MJ402: Automotive

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How to Make Fresh Buttermilk Ranch Dressing or Dip- So Easy! | eHow.com

How to Make Fresh Buttermilk Ranch Dressing or Dip- So Easy! eHow.com: "InstructionsThings You'll Need:
1/2 cup fresh buttermilk
1/4 cup mayonnaise- regular, low-fat for fat free
2 tablespoons white-wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper
1/4 cup of minced green onion
1/3 cup or more of chopped fresh herbs such as parsley, basil , chives, tarragon or dill (optionally use 2 tablespoons dried herbs)

Step 1 Whisk or use a jar with a tight fitting lid to shake together all ingredients until well blended.
Step 2 If using a whisk, stir in herbs, onion and bacon bits after whisking remaining ingredients.
Step 3 To add variety try adding finely chopped red or white onion and/or bacon bits or parmesan cheese.
Use your imagination and experiment with different herbs and other ingredients."

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com:

"This is really hard. O.K.,

No. 1:. “Does whiskey count as beer?” — Homer (after being asked by a TV announcer, “Are you on your third beer of the evening?”)


No. 2. “That man is my exact double … that dog has a puffy tail! [Chasing the dog] Heehee. Puff!” —
Homer (on seeing a man who looks as exactly the same as him, lying bloodied outside Moe’s tavern,
then being distracted by a dog with a puffy tail).

No. 3. “Me fail English? That’s unpossible.” - Ralph Wiggum"

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

Yellow Journalism: Q. and A. With the Unauthorized Historian of ‘The Simpsons’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com:

"“Edie: American Girl” [about Edie Sedgwick] and

“Please Kill Me” [a history of punk music]"

Small-Business Guide - Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords - NYTimes.com

Small-Business Guide - Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords - NYTimes.com

CBC Radio 2 Playlist - Find out what you just heard

BEAUTIFUL SPIRITS Time Aired: 6:28 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: JOHN SOUTHWORTH

TOO BLUE Time Aired: 6:32 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: 7 WORLDS COLLIDE

POURQUOI Time Aired: 6:36 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: MARIE-PIERRE ARTHUR

ONE GREAT CITY! Time Aired: 6:40 AMalbum:label:PERFORMER: WEAKERTHANS

Late Wife - Claudia Emerson

A little bit of a quick return to one of my favs.

In Late Wife, a she explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems.

Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years.

She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence.

Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from cancer.

One of the most touching poems is when she realizes that her first marriage is over.

For those of you... divorced.. or separated.. maybe you can see a sliver of yourself in the poem.

Pitching Horseshoes

Some of your buddies might come around

for a couple of beers and a game,

but most evenings, you pitched horseshoes

alone. I washed up the dishes

or watered the garden to the thudding

sound of the horseshoe in the pit,

or the practiced ring of metal

against metal, after the silent

arc – end over end. That last

summer, you played a seamless, unscored

game against yourself. Or night

falling. Or coming in the house.

You were good at it. From the porch

I watched you become shadowless,

then featureless, until I knew

you couldn't see either, and still

the dusk rang out, your aim that easy;

between the iron stakes you had driven

into the hard earth yourself, you paced

back and forth as if there were a decision

to make, and you were the one to make it.

A gorgeous and poignant evocation of a moment of personal loss and the beginning of a new journey.

If you liked it.. look for the book.. a Pulitzer Prize winner!

Late Wife ~ Claudia Emerson

It may make you sad.. but it will definitely touch you and remain with you forever!

Ladybug - A poem about breaking up

There are times when a broken heart can be your best muse.

A moth... upended...
lies like a silky oak leaf
a collapsed tent between window frame and glass.
Stillness in death hides a mass of smaller details
and the dirt beneath.
The white sill is water-stained
on it life is dirt and still.

The fresh daisies
are drinking their glass of water.
This wish is sear
This wish is severe
What you ruin... ruins you eventually
and so we hope for miracles
I mean.. I hope.

A ladybug explores the window
I wander a similar path
my undercarriage not as evident.
I wish it well.. it seems to me
But.... yet... I am but me - to you it is clear.
I mean to vanish and unclear
and project on you some ancient fear.

If I were an insect, I would not be
this tented winged thing, fluttering like a lost bird
skinny legged like me, kissing the damp air
fumbling towards the face of another... seeking.
It came in last night as I closed the door.

I law awake, in the dark, seeing it touch my face

in my mind's eye.

It wanted out. I wanted out as well

I offered you a way through
Arms wide for wings.
Your suffering twinned with mine.
Your joy a companion.
Screen
Your lack of courage drives me in.
Doubt for dirt, white sheet for sill
You never stay enough or still
Enough to be likened to

Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants - NYTimes.com

Wiggling Their Toes at the Shoe Giants - NYTimes.com

A Thunderstorm - Archibald Lampman

I was struggling mightily with a sonnet about a recent morning
thunderstorm.
Then I read this Canadian Poet
I am soooo depressed.. it is gorgeous.. evocative and brilliant
What is an amateur to do?? lol
He is - btw- considered one of Canada's greatest wordsmiths.

Archibald Lampman (1861 – 1899)

A Thunderstorm

A moment the wild swallows like a flight
Of withered gust-caught leaves, serenely high,
Toss in the windrack up the muttering sky.
The leaves hang still. Above the weird twilight,
The hurrying centres of the storm unite
And spreading with huge trunk and rolling fringe,
Each wheeled upon its own tremendous hinge,
Tower darkening on. And now from heaven's height,
With the long roar of elm-trees swept and swayed,
And pelted waters, on the vanished plain
Plunges the blast. Behind the wild white flash
That splits abroad the pealing thunder-crash,
Over bleared fields and gardens disarrayed,
Column on column comes the drenching rain.

Sigh...... ;-)

Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Ted Hughes Last Love Letter to Sylvia Plath

And yet at the end of 1997 Hughes published a beautiful, haunting poem on Plath called ''The City'' and for some reason did not include this in his final book.

It is gorgeous.. evocative.. chilling.. and an evocation to lost love.


Your poems are like a dark city centre.
Your novel, your stories, your journals, your letters, are suburbs
Of this big city.
The hotels are lit like office blocks all night
With scholars, priests, pilgrims. It's at night
Sometimes I drive through. I just find
Myself driving through, going slow, simply
Roaming in my own darkness, pondering
What you did. Nearly always
I glimpse you -- at some crossing,
Staring upwards, lost 60 year old.

Apres Moi, Le Deluge

Oft-quoted... oft mis-quoted... do you know what it really means??

Similar to Good Neighbours and Good Fences.
Do you think you know what this means??

It is always interesting to go back to the original source material to understand the context of something.

Often times - the original author is far more clever than the lazy interpreter.

Or.. then again.. maybe that is just me..

Father and Son Bye

People at rest.

They feel at ease

with Father's money.

Waiting....

We think not about death
While people drive home
People do not wait

One of my favourite masters of verse

Robert Penn Warren

Where - A Poem in Three Parts

Where it was not gently made.
They grow now....
where I once played.

Canada TSX EVA Company Investing

Here is an investing idea
EVA analysis of the Canadian TSX
Best results from a filter - a nice range of stocks and sectors

Let's see what happens!
The data points start on Apr 7, 2009




Cheers!

Illinoise nee Illinois - Sufjan Stevens

Where?
Think about it.
By threat, flee work.
Understand home gently.

My addition to the universe of poetry on a Sunday Morn basking in the sun.I wrote this while listening to Sufjan Stevens' brilliant creation of 2005 - Illinois.

His self-stated goal is to produce a recording about of each of the
states. This is his second.. a long journey to undertake.
That being said.. what a brilliant melange of thoughts and themes
I particularly love Chicago.


Give this a listen.. the entire journey is the way to go with this album.
Kinda like classic Velvet Underground.. no dipping in and sampling.

ol' e.e. cummings - Somewhere.....

Old e.e. has accompanied me all over the world. He strikes a chord in all manner of locale and circumstance.. poignant.. thoughtful.. happy.. sad..

I was looking at pics from my visit to China.. and thought you might like this poem!

Read this tiny jewel.. is it perfect.. or what??

e.e. cummings - somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

Deconstructing Mims - A Graphical Dissertation

I always liked Mr. Mim's masterpiece for the simple pleasures it provides. But his bold assertions raise the question... what does it all mean? Can we mine his unconventional logic to discover the secret to that ephemeral quality - Hot? I think if we rigorously study his logic - both graphically and quantitavely - the answer is absolute. Watch my decent into the hell of Rap Logic. Many props to the Village Voice for exploring this element first.

Sonnets to Orpheus

I have always been fascinated by the sonnet form. I have played with this myself for over 20 years... but I can always appreciate a master.
It was funny.. I had the TV on in the background when my ears perked up.. some mindless Canadian Sci Fi show was quoting Sonnets to Orpheus one of my long ago favs.
Amazing how a vague cultural reference can segue into a renewed love.
I dug up my old copy of Rainer Maria Rilke's masterpiece and launched in.
I have been carrying it around with me while I travel for work for over a week now.
Amazing how the still in an airport lounge or the bustle of a Starbucks can suddenly seem still when you read these sonnets.

There are 55 sonnets in the sequence, divided into two sections, the first of 26 and the second of 29. The sonnets follow certain trends, but they include many different forms.

The sonnets are made up of two quatrains followed by two triplets. As well, the sonnets have some rhyme scheme, generally a/b/a/b c/d/c/d or a/b/b/a c/d/d/c in the quartets and e/e/f g/g/f, e/f/g e/f/g or e/f/g g/f/e in the triplets.

They are also all metered, but their meters change tremendously between poems; dactylic and trochaic are the most common. The line length varies greatly, sometimes even within a particular sonnet.

Feast on this small sample.. and read more GOOD poetry


SONNET 1-21
Spring has come back. And the Earth is
like a child who memorized
many poems, so many! ... For this
long hard study, she wins the prize.
Her teacher was tough. We liked the white hue
of the beard below the old man's nose.
Now, we can quiz her what the blue
and green are called: she knows, she knows!

You lucky earth, from duty freed,
play with the children. We want to hold on
to you, jolly earth. The jolliest succeed.

What teacher taught her, all those things,
and what stands written in roots and long
entangled stems: she sings, she sings!

And for extra credit... the original untranslated!
Frühling ist wiedergekommen. Die Erde
ist wie ein Kind, das Gedichte weiß;
viele, o viele ... Für die Beschwerde
langen Lernens bekommt sie den Preis.
Streng war ihr Lehrer. Wir mochten das Weiße
an dem Barte des alten Manns.
Nun, wie das Grüne, das Blaue heiße,
dürfen wir fragen: sie kanns, sie kanns!

Erde, die frei hat, du glückliche, spiele
nun mit den Kindern. Wir wollen dich fangen,
fröhliche Erde. Dem Frohsten gelingts.

O, was der Lehrer sie lehrte, das Viele,
und was gedruckt steht in Wurzeln und langen
schwierigen Stämmen: sie singts, sie singts!