{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/ebm/ebm03.htm","path":"cla/ebm/ebm03.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/ebm/ebm03.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nClassics\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nThe Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, by Thomas Taylor, [1891]\n \np. 8\n \nEleusinian Mysteries.\n \np. 9\n \nBacchus.\n \n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201c\u2019Tis not merely\n The human being\u2019s pride that peoples space \n With life and mystical predominance, \n Since likewise for the stricken heart of Love \n This visible nature, and this common world \n Is all too narrow; yea, a deeper import \n Lurks in the legend told my infant years \n That lies upon that truth, we live to learn, \n For fable is Love\u2019s world, his home, his birthplace; \n Delightedly he dwells \u2019mong fays and talismans, \n And spirits, and delightedly believes \n Divinities, being himself divine. \n The intelligible forms of ancient poets, \n The fair humanities of Old Religion, \n The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, \n That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, \n Or forests by slow stream, or pebbly spring, \n Or chasms or wat\u2019ry depths;\u2014all these have vanished. \n They live no longer in the faith of Reason, \n But still the heart doth need a language; still \n Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.\u201d\n \nSchiller: The Piccolomini, Act. ii. Scene 4.\n \np. 10\n \nApollo and Muses.\n \nNext: Introduction","title":"The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: Fable is Love\u2019s World, Poem by Schiller","type":"page"}