Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TO EDUARD MORIKE, by LUDWIG FULDA Poet's Biography
First Line: Through your quiet-souled attendance
Last Line: You are king by god's good pleasure.
Subject(s): Morike, Eduard (1804-1875)

THROUGH your quiet-souled attendance
Upon verse and your vocation
Runs a holy self-dependence
And a smiling resignation.

Where's the need for you to cherish
Far-brought beauty, far-sought treasure?
Of your house and of your parish
You are king by God's good pleasure.