Although Schiller did exceed Goethe in height,
their monument ignores this fact.
The artist had to cheat allright,
to keep Wolfgang’s image intact.

Is this the famous Weimar spirit,
which does not value earthly trifles?
Which to fiction gives highest merit,
and reality generously stifles?

Has one lured the EC into the net,
and ensnared her with silver yarn?
Then taken gold as much to get,
Because Brussels did not see the darn?

Purpose justifies all means,
the wellknown old Loyola trick,
with which not only British queens,
got hold of many golden brick.

So what, if the citiy has new splendor,
although most glamour comes from the past.
For tourism it is a great vendor,
Let’s hope that this business will last.

Before you give, you have to take,
the Geheimrat that time wrote.
He partook riesling, port and cake,
then wrote poems in his abode.