Hymns to the NightNovalis (1772 – 1801) was a poet, mystic, an.docxwilcockiris
Hymns to the Night
Novalis (1772 – 1801) was a poet, mystic, and philosopher. He was influenced by German Idealism, especially the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and became one of the great poets of German Romanticism.
He developed the spiritual symbol of the Blue Flower, an integral part of his ‘religion of love.’ Appearing for the first time in his unfinished novel, Henry von Ofterdingen, the Blue Flower represents man’s longing for heaven.
His first major work, Hymns to the Night, was written upon the death of his beloved fiancee Sophie, who died of tuberculosis when she was fifteen years old.
HYMNS TO THE NIGHT (translated by George MacDonald)
I.
Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread space around him, what living, sentient thing loves not the all-joyous light, with its colors, its rays and undulations, its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening Day? The giant-world of the unresting constellations inhales it as the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its azure flood; the sparkling, ever-tranquil stone, the thoughtful, imbibing plant, and the wild, burning multiform beast inhales it; but more than all, the lordly stranger with the sense-filled eyes, the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips. Like a king over earthly nature, it rouses every force to countless transformations, binds and unbinds innumerable alliances, hangs its heavenly form around every earthly substance. Its presence alone reveals the marvelous splendor of the kingdoms of the world.
Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night. Afar lies the world, sunk in a deep grave; waste and lonely is its place. In the chords of the bosom blows a deep sadness. I am ready to sink away in drops of dew, and mingle with the ashes.-- The distances of memory, the wishes of youth, the dreams of childhood, the brief joys and vain hopes of a whole long life, arise in gray garments, like an evening vapor after the sunset. In other regions the light has pitched its joyous tents. What if it should never return to its children, who wait for it with the faith of innocence?
What springs up all at once so sweetly boding in my heart, and stills the soft air of sadness? Dost thou also take a pleasure in us, dark Night? What holdest thou under thy mantle, that with hidden power affects my soul? Precious balm drips from thy hand out of its bundle of poppies. Thou upliftest the heavy-laden wings of the soul. Darkly and inexpressibly are we moved: joy-startled, I see a grave face that, tender and worshipful, inclines toward me, and, amid manifold entangled locks, reveals the youthful loveliness of the Mother. How poor and childish a thing seems to me now the Light! how joyous and welcome the departure of the day!-- Didst thou not only therefore, because the Night turns away from thee thy servants, you now strew in the gulfs of space those flashing globes, to proclaim, in seasons of thy absence, thy omnipotence, and thy return?
More heaven.
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Unassailably Right
1. UNASSAILABLY RIGHT
If you thought that the entire world was your majestic stage; and you could
exuberantly dance on its enigmatically marvelous platform; for centuries immemorial,
If you thought that the entire world was your resplendent stage; and you could
uninhibitedly frolic on its bountifully fantastic landscape; till even beyond the
aisles of infinite infinity,
If you thought that the entire world was your priceless stage; and you could
unrestrictedly sleep in its celestially spell binding cradle; till infinite more births of
yours yet to unveil,
If you thought that the entire world was your vivacious stage; and you could
indefatigably learn in its philanthropically symbiotic lap; for decades unprecedented,
If you thought that the entire world was your eclectic stage; and you could
unrelentingly fantasize in its blessed mists; for a zillion minutes,
If you thought that the entire world was your proliferating stage; and you could
unstoppably kiss in its compassionate embrace; till the time mother earth
synergistically existed,
If you thought that the entire world was your mesmerizing stage; and you could
artistically discover on its incredibly tantalizing trajectory; for an unfathomable gorge
of endless hours which none had the power to conceive,
If you thought that the entire world was your royal stage; and you could
uncontrollably rejoice in its waterfalls of perennially enchanting love; for as long
as the clock of life inscrutably ticked,
If you thought that the entire world was your patriotic stage; and you could
unflinchingly adventure in its ship of intrepidly limitless ecstasy; till tireless fortnights
galore,
If you thought that the entire world was your ingratiating stage; and you could
harmoniously mélange in its swirl of invincibly unshakable brotherhood;
till even beyond the veritable definitions of time,
If you thought that the entire world was your scintillating stage; and you could
victoriously blaze in its spirit of sacrosanct mankind; for instants unsurpassable,
If you thought that the entire world was your pristine stage; and you could
unceasingly exult in its rainbow of untainted desire; for a fathomlessly more euphoric
2. nights,
If you thought that the entire world was your undefeated stage; and you could
sensuously fulminate in its mountain of ardently unparalleled yearning; till
entrenchments beyond the construable reach of voice,
If you thought that the entire world was your divinely stage; and you could titillate
every slavering ingredient of your skin in its fountain of unblemished happiness; for
as long as breath remained as the sole panacea for leading life,
If you thought that the entire world was your emollient stage; and you could quench
your every benign yearning in its Sun of Omnipotent success; till even after the last
trace of strength had extradited from your bones,
If you thought that the entire world was your inimitable stage; and you could
ecstatically innovate in its fabric of supreme selflessness; till even the most mercurial
decibel of sound palpitated in the atmosphere,
If you thought that the entire world was your unconquerable stage; and you could
innocuously paint its vividly flocculent canvas; as long as there was Sun and Moon
with equal equanimity in sapphire sky,
If you thought that the entire world was your miraculous stage; and you could
immortally bond in its romantically impeccable paradise; for days and nights
incomprehensible,
Then what you are thinking is unassailably right; if only you could add BY THE
GRACE OF GOD to each of your holistically Samaritan thoughts; O! Yes all that
you are thinking is more than a 100 % true reflection of your humanitarian soul; by
the grace of the Creator Divine.
