Re: CHAT: Tacos et al.

Quoting Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>:

> > >   Aus der Wahrheit Feuerspiegel  Out of the mirror of truth
> > >   Lächelt sie den Forscher an.   she smiles on the explorer.
> > >   Zu der Tugend steilem Hügel    To the arduous hill of virtue
> > >   Leitet sie des Dulders Bahn.   she leads the course of the
> > >            (_An die Freude_)        Sufferer.    (To Joy)
>
> Am I alone in wanting to sing this to "that" tune?
> Mike
Depends on if you like Beethoven, I guess.  He used parts of
Schiller's poem to form the Chorale of his Ninth Symphony.  The
first bit goes:

  Freude, schöne Götterfunken,   Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
    Tochter aus Elysium,           daughter of Elysium,
  Wir betreten feuertrunken      intoxicated by fire we enter
    Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!    your sanctuary, Heavenly one!

(It sounds so much better in German! Then again, maybe that's
because the ridiculousness of it is cloaked behind the foreign
phonology...)

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