Ich verspräche gerne diesem Buche die Liebe der Deutschen. - Friedrich Hölderlin

Everything that I have known
You'll write to me to remind
Me of, and likewise I shall do
The whole past I'll recount to you

Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
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Growing weak on the separate mountains — Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.

The God, when he draws near, will the heart stand fast.
But, oh my, shame! when of

My shame!

And let me say at once

That I approached to see the Heavenly,
And they cast me down, deep down
Below the living, into the dark cast down
The false priest that I am, to sing,
For those who have ears to hear, the warning song.
There