Hyperion's Song Of Destiny

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Holy spirits, you walk up there
  in the light, on soft earth.
  Shining god-like breezes
  touch upon you gently,
  as a woman's fingers
  play music on holy strings.

Like sleeping infants the gods
  breathe without any plan;
  the spirit flourishes continually
  in them, chastely kept,
  as in a small bud,
  and their holy eyes
  look out in still
  eternal clearness.


A place to rest
  isn't given to us.
  Suffering humans
  decline and blindly fall
  from one hour to the next,
  like water thrown
  from cliff to cliff,
  year after year,
  down into the Unknown.

© Friedrich Hölderlin