IN PRAISE OF HÖLDERLIN

Somewhat after Rilke

Your spirit was nomadic, always journeying on
and out. How all the others stayed at home

padding about in their snug slippers,
house-proud, trading in narrow analogues.

You alone rose up and moved across the sky
a moon, making the earth more radiant:

an arcadia left by laughing children,
a glade with no footprints, a crucible of silver.5_nietzsche.html
 
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