stealthy
cats of
prey: they
take from
thee and
me what is
common to
us—the
vast
unbounded
Yea- and
Amen-saying.
These
mediators
and mixers
we
detest—the
passing
clouds:
those
half-and-
half ones,
that have
neither
learned to
bless nor
to curse
from the
heart.
Rather
will I sit
in a tub
under a
closed
heaven,
rather
will I sit
in the
abyss
without
heaven,
than see
thee, thou
luminous
heaven,
tainted
with
passing
clouds!
And oft
