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Zarathustra's roundelay (Template:Lang-de), also called the Midnight Song or Once More (Template:Lang-de), is a poem that figures in the 1883-1885 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The poem first appears in the chapter "The Second Dance-Song", then reappears in the following chapter, "The Drunken Song".
German original
- O Mensch! Gib acht!
- Was spricht die tiefe Mitternacht?
- »Ich schlief, ich schlief—,
- Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht:—
- Die Welt ist tief,
- Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht.
- Tief ist ihr Weh—,
- Lust—tiefer noch als Herzeleid:
- Weh spricht: Vergeh!
- Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit—,
- —will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!«
Selected English translations
There are a number of different English translations.
- O man! Lose not sight!
- What saith the deep midnight?
- "I lay in sleep, in sleep;
- From deep dream I come to light.
- The world is deep,
- And deeper than ever day thought it might.
- Deep is its woe—
- And deeper still than woe—delight.
- Saith woe: 'Pass, go!
- Eternity's sought by all delight—,
- Eternity deep—by all delight!'"
- O man! Take heed!
- What saith deep midnight's voice indeed?
- "I slept my sleep—
- "From deepest dream I've woke and plead:—
- "The world is deep,
- "And deeper than the day could read.
- "Deep is its woe—
- "Joy—deeper still than grief can be:
- "Woe saith: Hence! Go!
- "But joys all want eternity—
- "Want deep profound eternity!"
Textual characteristics
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Interpretation
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See also
References
- Hollinrake, Roger (1982). "7. Zarathustra's Great Noon". Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism. Routledge. p. 92. doi:10.4324/9780203092705. ISBN 978-0-203-09270-5.
- ^ Puffett, Derrick (1998). "A Nietzschean Libretto: Delius and the Text for 'A Mass of Life'". Music & Letters. 79 (2): 244–267. ISSN 0027-4224. JSTOR 854955.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1899). Thus spake Zarathustra: a book for all and none. The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Vol. II. London: T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 339–40, 483.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, "Part Three", Thus Spake Zarathustra, retrieved 2022-12-24
Further reading
- Hollinrake, Roger (1982). "6. Zarathustra's Roundelay". Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203092705. ISBN 978-0-203-09270-5.
- Stegmaier, Werner (2018), Bertino, Andrea C. (ed.), "12. „Oh Mensch! Gieb Acht!" Kontextuelle Interpretation des Mitternachts-Lieds aus Also sprach Zarathustra", Europa im Geisterkrieg. Studien zu Nietzsche, OBP collection (in German), Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 333–361, ISBN 979-10-365-2455-4, retrieved 2023-01-21
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