Versos English Friedrich Schiller The Imitator.

English poem

The Imitator.

by (1759–1805)

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Good from the good, to the reason this is not hard of conception; But the genius has power good from the bad to evoke. 'Tis the conceived alone, that thou, imitator, canst practise; Food the conceived never is, save to the mind that conceives.