Hope, Faith, and Love
There are three lessons I would write,
Three words as with a golden pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
Have Hope! Though clouds environ now,
And Gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow -
No night but has its morn.
Have Faith! Where’er thy bark is driven -
The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth -
Know this: God rules the hosts of Heaven,
The inhabitants of Earth.
Have Love! Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call,
And scatter like the circling Sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these words upon thy soul -
Hope, faith and love - and thou shalt find
Strength when life’s surges maddest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.
by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (about 1786)
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, also known simply as Friedrich Schiller, was born on 10 November 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. He became a poet, an essayist, a historian, a dramatist, and a playwright. He is the author of the plays “The Robbers” (1781), “Don Carlos” (1787), the trilogy “Wallenstein” (1796), “William Tell” (1804), and the poem “Ode to Joy” (1785). Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller passed on at 45 years of age on 9 May 1805 in Weimer, Duchy of Saxe-Weimer, Holy Roman Empire.
There are three lessons I would write,
Three words as with a golden pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men.
Have Hope! Though clouds environ now,
And Gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow -
No night but has its morn.
Have Faith! Where’er thy bark is driven -
The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth -
Know this: God rules the hosts of Heaven,
The inhabitants of Earth.
Have Love! Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call,
And scatter like the circling Sun,
Thy charities on all.
Thus grave these words upon thy soul -
Hope, faith and love - and thou shalt find
Strength when life’s surges maddest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.
by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (about 1786)
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, also known simply as Friedrich Schiller, was born on 10 November 1759 in Marbach am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. He became a poet, an essayist, a historian, a dramatist, and a playwright. He is the author of the plays “The Robbers” (1781), “Don Carlos” (1787), the trilogy “Wallenstein” (1796), “William Tell” (1804), and the poem “Ode to Joy” (1785). Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller passed on at 45 years of age on 9 May 1805 in Weimer, Duchy of Saxe-Weimer, Holy Roman Empire.
