schwing

Updated: May 23, 2025

First, I could read the Bible with them; and, secondly, I had to learn line by line, instead of the little texts of the younger children already spoken of, the hymns for the following Sunday's service. Of these, two especially light up the gloomy lowering dawn of my early boyhood, like two brilliant stars. They are "Schwing dich auf, mein Herz und Geist," and "Es kostet viel ein Christ zu sein."

Friedrich Fröbel - Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore.