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I fear thee not and other poems. Stechhan, Otto. 
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I FEAR THEE NOT
AND OTHER POEMS

BY

OTTO STECHHAN

INDIANAPOLIS CARLON & HOLLENBECK, PRINTERS 1893

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Copyright, 1893,


By OTTO STECHHAN.

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MOTTO

MARGARET.

  • Dost thou believe in God?

FAUST.

  • Yes, I in God believe,
  • Question or priest or sage and they
  • Seem, in the answer you receive,
  • To mock the questioner.

MARGARET.

  • Then thou dost not believe?

FAUST.

  • Sweet one, my meaning do not misconceive;
  • Him who dare name
  • And who proclaim,
  • Him I believe?
  • Who that can feel, his heart can steal,
  • To say, I believe him not?
  • The All-embracer,
  • All-sustainer.
  • Holds and sustains he not
  • Thee, me, himself?
  • Lifts not the heaven its dome above?
  • Doth not the firm set earth beneath us lie?
  • And beaming tenderly with looks of love,
  • Climb not the everlasting stars on high ?
  • Do I not gaze into thine eyes?
  • Nature's impenetrable agencies,
  • Are they not thronging on thy heart and brain,
  • Viewless, or visible to mortal ken,
  • Around thee weaving their mysterious chain?
  • Fill thence thy heart, how large so'er it be;
  • And in the feeling when thou utterly art blest,
  • Then call it what you will--
  • Call it bliss I heart I love I God I
  • I have no name for it!--
  • 'Tis feeling all;
  • Name is but sound and smoke
  • Shrouding the glow of heaven.

--FAUST (GOETHE).


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DEDICATED
TO
ALLLOVERS OF NATURE AND THE NATURAL
BY
OTTO STECHHAN

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