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The Course Of Life by Friedrich Holderlin A Paradise of Poems
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You too wanted better things, but love forces all of us down. Sorrow bends us more forcefully, but the arc doesn't return to its point of origin without a reason. Upwards or downwards! In holy Night, where mute Nature plans the coming days, doesn't there reign in the most twisted Orcus something straight and direct? This I have learned. Never to my knowledge did you, all-preserving gods, like mortal masters, lead me providentially along a straight path. The gods say that man should test everything, and that strongly nourished he be thankful for everything, and understand the freedom to set forth wherever he will.
You too wanted better things, but love forces all of us down. Sorrow bends us more forcefully, but the arc doesn't return to its point of origin without a reason. Upwards or downwards! In holy Night, where mute Nature plans the coming days, doesn't there reign in the most twisted Orcus something straight and direct? This I have learned. Never to my knowledge did you, all-preserving gods, like mortal masters, lead me providentially along a straight path. The gods say that man should test everything, and that strongly nourished he be thankful for everything, and understand the freedom to set forth wherever he will.
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