Episodes in human life described in Schiller's "The song of the bell". Line engraving by A. Schleich after C. Nilson.

Episodes described in the poem Das Lied von der Glocke by Friedrich Schiller. At the foot is the master founder with a big bell named Concordia, and three Latin mottos expressing its functions (the epigraph to the poem): Vivos voco, Mortuos plango, Fulgura frango (The living I call, the dead I lament, the lightening I break). Along the top are three scenes marking the cardinal events of life at which the bell is rung: a marriage, the baptism of a child, and a funeral. On the left side, below marriage, are two other happy episodes: a woman looks after the home while her husband goes out to do business, and people enjoy a peaceful and joyful evening at harvest time. On the right side, below the funeral, are two other unhappy events: fire damages a town, and war, revolution and civil violence overtake a nation