# The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1912–1918

## GA 277a — 7 September 1915, Dornach

### The Apollonian Course XVIII

***Form for four-line stanzas with a repeating fourth line***

For three-line stanzas with refrain, dictated by Dr. Steiner in the 1915 course and briefly outlined.

> Fercher von Steinwand: “My Ideals”
> A lonely house full of love's delight,  
> A forest, a spring in the green valley,  
> A life spent in springtime and sunshine,  
> That was my ideal.
> A friend with a German soul,  
> Inspiring me in joy and pain,  
> For me, even when I fall and fail,  
> That was my ideal.
> A woman in my own living room,  
> Faithful as steel in value and will,  
> Plus a healthy boy,  
> That was my ideal.
> A great master who coolly  
> Shines the truth with the ray of his mind  
> Down into my feelings,  
> That was my ideal.
> A prince with energy in his veins  
> And men, not pale with discontent,  
> And brave hearts without strife,  
> That was my ideal.

From here: square shift

> How gladly I let them fade away  
> All those dear images,  
> I can exchange them for the highest,  
> A beloved ideal!
> A noble people, ruling sensibly,  
> Who, above every torment of suffering,  
> Unfolds its soul more courageously,  
> The world's ideal
> A Germany on the battlements of humanity,  
> A pillar of strength in the hall of the world,  
> Cast-iron on the outside and on the inside,  
> Itself the ideal
> Do you also lose yourself in the distance,  
> My ideal of purest choice:  
> With you I would ascend to the stars,  
> With you, my ideal!

Poems with three lines and a fourth as a repetition are danced by three with a fourth in the middle. The repetition is separated from the figure.


Upbeat for four-line stanzas with a repeating fourth line:


S [L. Smits] L [Liesli, Elisabeth Dollfus] E [Erna Wolfram] KIT. Kisseleff]

First consonantal and vocalic. In a triangle and circle. “My Ideals”

During the second line, S [Lory Smits] slowly moves to the place of L [Elisabeth Dollfus].

The figure first moves around with a musical motif, then verse by verse.

The repetition is recorded.