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Wein' über die die weinen fern in Babel, Ihr Tempel brach, ihr Land ward, ach! zur Fabel! Wein'! es erstart der heil 'gen Harfe Ton, Im Haus Jehovas haust der Spötter Hohn.
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Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem (1834), now in the German Emperor's collection, and the
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Sending of the Jews into Captivity in Babylon
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But the greatest success lies in store for those works which depict in harmony with the mood of the times historical or poetical performances which express human suffering in its various stages, from homely and everyday griefs to the silent sorrow of irretrievable catastrophe.
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Lessing's
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Royal Pair mourn the death of their daughter; Hagar grieves because she is forced to abandon her son Ishmael in the desert; Genoveva, because the roe is so long in coming to the rescue. The mortal grief of love is represented by Lessing's
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Leonora ; grief of love at separation by Sohn's and Hildebrandt's pictures of
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Romeo and Juliet. Even the murderers of the
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Sons of Edward
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Girdling one another Within their innocent alabaster arms: Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kissed each other.
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Ruth, because her weeping mother-in-law entreats her to depart; Stilke's
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Pilgrim in the Desert, because his horse has died of thirst; Plüddeman's
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Columbus, because he knows himself to be unworthy of the grace of God which enabled him to discover America; Kiederich's
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Charles V , because he has retired too early to his monastery, and is plagued by the ticking of his watch. The Hohenstaufens, of course, appealed more to the pity of the public: the misfortunes of the beautiful Enzin, of Manfred and Conrad, gave birth to a sentiment of profoundest sadness. Even brigands mourn at the depravity of the world. The age had come to despise its own Philistine situation so deeply that it looked up to the brigands, the adversaries of civil order, as to representatives of justice. All depravity, it was said, originated with the public functionaries, and to the noble brigands was allotted the task of revolutionising existing things. Their ally in this was to be the poacher. At a time when a revision of the game-laws was the sole timid wish the people ventured to lay before its princes, it was only logical that the poacher should be looked upon as the victim of injustice, as the rescuer of the small man from the claws of feudal despotism. The numerous pictures that glorify him, as he falls weltering in his blood beneath the guns of the gamekeepers, make pendants to Raupach's
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Smugglers,