The Evening Stanza of the Song of the Bell

In Friedrich Schiller’s Das Lied von der Glocke (The Song of the Bell, written in 1799 and first printed for the year 1800), the bell has been cast and the metal must cool. The work stops for the evening: Bis die Glocke sich verkühlet, / Laßt die strenge Arbeit ruhn, / Wie im Laub der Vogel spielet, / Mag sich jeder gütlich tun. / Winkt der Sterne Licht, / Ledig aller Pflicht / Hört der Pursch die Vesper schlagen, / Meister muß sich immer plagen. Until the bell has cooled, let the hard work rest. As the bird plays in the leaves, each one may take his ease. When the starlight beckons, free of all duty, the young journeyman hears the evening bell. The master must always toil.

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