Friedrich H\u00f6lderlin<\/p>\n
AN UNSRE GRO\u00dfEN DICHTER. \u2014 TO OUR GREAT POETS.<\/p>\n
The Ganges\u2019 banks heard the god of joy\u2019s
triumph, as from the Indus all-conquering
young Bacchus came, with holy
wine waking the nations from their sleep.<\/p>\n
Oh poets, wake them up from their slumber,
Who are still asleep, give them laws, give
Us life, vanquish, oh heroes, only you
Have the right to conquer like Bacchus.<\/p>\n
DIE SCHEINHEILIGEN DICHTER. \u2014 THE SANCTIMONIOUS POETS.<\/p>\n
You cold hypocrites, don\u2019t speak of the gods!
You have Mind! you do not believe in Helios,
Nor in the Thunderer or the Sea God;
The earth is dead, who would thank her?<\/p>\n
Be confident, oh gods! For you do adorn the song,
Though soul have vanished from your names,
And if a Great Word be needed,
Mother Nature! you will be recalled.<\/p>\n
[translated on a cold sunny August dawn in Bourg d’Oueil, looking out at the mountain-side beyond the creek, hoping, expecting, deer to cross the line between wood and meadow. Red-tailed hawk \u2013 I think \u2013 circles the field.<\/p>\n
Cannot get the spacing right, i.e. line indents disappear when I transfer translated text to the blog space, but don’t have time \u2013 given that I am using a low-baud modem \u2013 to get html codes from web & try to figure oit how to do the formatting correctly tis morning.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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