Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Domrémy | | The Maid of Orleans | | Friedrich von Schiller (1759–1805) |
| | Translated by James Clarence Mangan
AT thee the mocker sneers in cold derision, | |
| Through thee he seeks to desecrate and dim | |
| Glory for which he hath no soul or vision, | |
| For “God” and “Angel” are but sounds with him. | |
| He makes the jewels of the heart his booty, | 5 |
| And scoffs at man’s belief and woman’s beauty. | |
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| Yet thou—a lowly shepherdess!—descended | |
| Not from a kingly but a godly race, | |
| Art crowned by Poesy! Amid the splendid | |
| Of heaven’s high stars she builds thy dwelling-place, | 10 |
| Garlands thy temples with a wreath of glory, | |
| And swathes thy memory in eternal story. | |
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| The base of this weak world exult at seeing | |
| The fair defaced, the lofty in the dust; | |
| Yet grieve not! There are godlike heads in being | 15 |
| Which worship still the beautiful and just. | |
| Let Momus and his mummers please the crowd, | |
| Of nobleness alone a noble mind is proud. | | | | |
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