Note 3 — VI YOUNG GERMANY (continued 4)
Mary Morison translation
That Schelling should go, and Cornelius too, Without a tear I can see— The one has lost his reasoning power, The other all his fancy. But to steal from my crown its brightest gem, Its pearl of price, was cruel; My master-gymnast they've filched away, Massmann, mankind's chief jewel. This crime has bent and broken me, 'Tis soul-destroying, cynical— I have lost the man who had clambered up To his art's supremest pinnacle.