Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin

“Come! into the open, friend! admittedly only a little is gleaming todaydown and narrowly the heaven is enclosing us.Neither the mountains have yet risen of the forestthe peak as wished and empty the air is resting of singingIt’s dull today, the ways and lanes are slumbering and nearly it mayseem to me to be as in the leaden time. Nevertheless the wish succeeds, true believers don’t have doubts about Onehour and to the pleasure the day must furthermore be dedicated.”