The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems. Friedrich von Schiller

        The goddess a miscarriage had, good lack!

         And was delivered of an — Almanac!

         The sullen mayor who reigns in hell,

          By mortals Pluto hight,

         Who thrashes all his subjects well,

         Both morn and eve, as stories tell,

          And rules the realms of night,

         All pleasure lost in cursing once,

         All joy in flogging, for the nonce.

         The sedentary life he led

          Upon his brazen chair