From both he received grateful
acknowledgments. Goethe unhesitatingly recognised the head, and
laid stress on the peculiar beauty and evenness of the teeth.
"The new cemetery lay on a gently rising ground on the south side of
the town. Schwabe's favourite plan was to deposit what he had
found--all that he now ever dreamed of finding--of his beloved poet
on the highest point of the slope, and to mark the spot by a simple
monument, so that travellers at their first approach might know
where the head of Schiller lay. One forenoon in early spring he led
Frau von Wolzogen and the Chancellor von Muller to the spot. They
approved his plan, and the remaining members of Schiller's family--
all of whom had left Weimar--signified their assent. They 'did not
desire,' as one of themselves expressed it, 'to strive against
Nature's appointment that man's earthly remains should be reunited
with herself;' they would prefer that their father's dust should
rest in the ground rather than anywhere else. But the Grand Duke
and Goethe decided otherwise.
"Dannecker's colossal bust of Schiller had recently been acquired
for the Grand Ducal library, where it had been placed on a lofty
pedestal opposite the bust of Goethe; and in this pedestal, which
was hollow, it was resolved to deposit the skull. The consent of
the family having been obtained, the solemnity was delayed till the
arrival of Ernst von Schiller, who could not reach Weimar before
autumn.
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