Thus Spake Zarathustra - Penn State University

Friedrich Nietzscheeagle—blessedness! Of a poet and fool—the blessedness!cholyvoluptuousness. Only the spiritually conscientiouslike birds unawares into the net of his artful and melan-In evening’s limpid air, What time the moon’s sickle, one had not been caught: he at once snatched the harpGreen, ‘twixt the purple-glowings, And jealous, steal’th from the magician and called out: “Air! Let in good air!forth: —Of day the foe, With every step in secret, The Let in Zarathustra! Thou makest this cave sultry and poisonous,thou bad old magician!rosy garland-hammocks Downsickling, till they’ve sunkenDown nightwards, faded, downsunken:—Thou seducest, thou false one, thou subtle one, toThus had I sunken one day From mine own truth-insanity,From mine own fervid day-longings, Of day aweary, should talk and make ado about the truth!unknown desires and deserts. And alas, that such as thousick of sunshine, —Sunk downwards, evenwards, Alas, to all free spirits who are not on their guardshadowwards: By one sole trueness All scorched and against SUCH magicians! It is all over with their freedom:thirsty: —Bethinkst thou still, bethinkst thou, burning thou teachest and temptest back into prisons,—heart, How then thou thirstedest?—That I should banned —Thou old melancholy devil, out of thy lamentbe from all the trueness! Mere fool! Mere poet!soundeth a lurement: thou resemblest those who withtheir praise of chastity secretly invite to voluptuousness!”Thus spake the conscientious one; the old magician,however, looked about him, enjoying his triumph, and onthat account put up with the annoyance which the conscientiousone caused him. “Be still!” said he with mod-LXXV. SCIENCEest voice, “good songs want to re-echo well; after goodTHUS SANG THE MAGICIAN; and all who were present went songs one should be long silent.269