_'Tis said, when Schiller's death drew nigh,
The wish possessed his mighty mind,
To wander forth wherever lie
The homes and haunts of human kind._
Shortly before the death of Schiller, he was seized with a strong
desire to travel in foreign countries, as if his spirit had a
presentiment of its approaching enlargement, and already longed to
expatiate in a wider and more varied sphere of existence.