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Had it not been for the poetic inspiration of such word-makers as Goethe and Heine, we should not have had such music-makers in the sphere of song as Schubert and Franz. The songs of these masters appeal to the interest and admiration of the world, then, not merely in virtue of musical beauty, but in that they are the most vital outgrowths of Teutonic nationality and feeling.
We often now use the expression to try one's "'prentice hand" on a thing when we mean that we are going to do a thing for the first time. The commonest actions have naturally given us most metaphorical words, for these were the actions of which the word-makers were most easily reminded.
As occupying somewhat of a middle place between those more deliberate word-makers and the multitude whose words rather grow of themselves than are made, we must not omit him who is a maker by the very right of his name I mean, the poet.
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