THE COURSE OF LIFE
By Friedrich #Holderlin (tr. Michael Hamburger)
More also you desired, but every one of us
Love draws earthward, and grief bends with still greater power;
Yet our arc not for nothing
Brings us back to our starting place.
By Friedrich #Holderlin (tr. Michael Hamburger)
More also you desired, but every one of us
Love draws earthward, and grief bends with still greater power;
Yet our arc not for nothing
Brings us back to our starting place.
Whether upward or down - does not in holy night
Where mute Nature thinks out days that are still to come,
Though in crookedest Orcus,
Yet a straightness, a law prevail?
Where mute Nature thinks out days that are still to come,
Though in crookedest Orcus,
Yet a straightness, a law prevail?
This I learned. For not once, as mortal masters do,
Did you heavenly ones, wise preservers of all,
To my knowledge, with foresight
Lead me on by a level path.
Did you heavenly ones, wise preservers of all,
To my knowledge, with foresight
Lead me on by a level path.
All a man shall try out, thus say the heavenly,
So that strongly sustained he shall give thanks for all,
Learn to grasp his own freedom
To be gone where he's moved to go.
- #Holderlin, ‘Course of Life’ (tr. Michael Hamburger)
So that strongly sustained he shall give thanks for all,
Learn to grasp his own freedom
To be gone where he's moved to go.
- #Holderlin, ‘Course of Life’ (tr. Michael Hamburger)
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