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- 0:00Part three, Chapter fifty eight, The Great Longing, O, my soul,
- 0:08I have taught THEE to say to day as once on a time and
- 0:13formerly, and to dance thy measure over every here and there and yonder.
- 0:20O, my soul I delivered THEE from all by places. I brushed down
- 0:25from THEE dust and spiders and twilight. O my soul I washed the petty's
- 0:32shame and the bye place virtue from THEE, and persuaded THEE to stand naked
- 0:38before the eyes of the sun. With the storm that is called spirit.
- 0:44Did I blow over thy surging sea, all clouds, did I blow away
- 0:50from it? I strangled even the strangler called sin. O my soul I
- 0:57gave THEE the right to say nay like the storm, and to say yea
- 1:02as the open heaven saith, yea calm, as the light remainest thou and
- 1:07thou walkest through, denying storms, O, my soul, I restore to
- 1:14THEE liberty over the created and the uncreated. And who knoweth as thou knowest
- 1:21the voluptuousness of the future. Oh, my soul, I taught THEE the
- 1:26contempt which doth not come like worm eating the great, the loving contempt,
- 1:32which loveth most when it contempteth most. O my soul, I taught THEE
- 1:38so to persuade, that thou persuadest even the grounds themselves to THEE, like
- 1:44the sun, which persuadeth even the sea to its height. O, my
- 1:49soul, I have taken from THEE all obeying and knee bending and homage paying.
- 1:56I have myself given THEE the names change of need and fate, O,
- 2:02my soul, I have given THEE new names and gay colored playthings.
- 2:07I have called THEE fate, and the circuit of circuits, and the navel
- 2:14string of time, and the azure bell. O my soul, to thy
- 2:21domain gave I all wisdom to drink, all new wines, and also all
- 2:27immemorially old strong wines of wisdom, O, my soul, every sun shed
- 2:34eye upon THEE, and every night, and every silence and every longing,
- 2:38then grewest thou up for me as a vine, O, my soul.
- 2:45Exuberant and heavy, dost thou now stand forth a vine with swelling adders and
- 2:51full clusters of brown golden grapes, filled and weighed by thy happiness, waiting
- 2:58for superabundance, and yet ashamed, of thy waiting, O, my soul,
- 3:05there is nowhere a soul which could be more loving, and more comprehensive
- 3:08and more extensive. Where could future and past be closer together than with THEE?
- 3:15O, my soul, I have given THEE everything, and all my
- 3:20hands have become empty by THEE. And now now sayest thou to me,
- 3:25smiling and full of melancholy, which of us oeth? Thanks? Doth the
- 3:31givern not o thanks? Because the receiver received is bestowing, not a necessity,
- 3:38is receiving, not pitying, O, my soul, I understand the
- 3:44smiling of thy melancholy. Thy over abundance itself now stretches out longing hands.
- 3:50Thy fullness looketh forth over raging seas, and seeketh and waiteth the longing of
- 3:58over fullness looketh forth from the smiling heaven of thine eyes. And verily,
- 4:03O, my soul, who could see thy smiling, are not melt into
- 4:08tears. The angels themselves melt into tears through the over graciousness of thy smiling.
- 4:15Thy graciousness, and over graciousness is it which will not complain and weep.
- 4:21And yet, oh, my soul, longeth thy smiling for tears are
- 4:27thy trembling mouth, For sobs is not all weeping, complaining, and all
- 4:33complaining accusing. Thus spaket thou to thyself, and therefore, o my soul,
- 4:41wilt thou rather smile than pour forth thy grief? Then, in gushing
- 4:46tears, pours forth all thy grief concerning thy fullness, and concerning the craving
- 4:51of the vine for the vintager and the vintage knife. But wilt thou not
- 4:57weep? Wilt thou not weep forth thy purple melancholy, Then wilt thou have
- 5:03to sing, O my soul, behold, I smile myself. Who foretell
- 5:09thee this thou wilt have to sing with passionate song, until all seas turn
- 5:15calm into hearkening, unto thy longing, until over calm longing seas the bar
- 5:21glideth the golden marvel, around the gold of which all good, bad and
- 5:28marvelous things frisk also many large and small animals, and everything that hath light
- 5:34marvelous feet, so that it can run on violet blue paths towards the golden
- 5:42marvel. The spontaneous bark and its master. He, however, is the
- 5:46vinteger, who waiteth with the diamond vintage knife, Thy great deliverer, O
- 5:53my soul, the nameless one for whom the future songs only will find names,
- 5:59And verily already hath thy breath a fragrance of future songs. Already glowest
- 6:05thou and dreamst Already drinkest thou thirstily at all deep echoing wills of consolation already
- 6:14reposeth thy melancholy are the bliss of future songs. Oh, my soul.
- 6:19Now have I given THEE all and even my last possession, And all my
- 6:26hands have become empty by THEE that I bade THEE sing. Behold, that
- 6:32was my last thing to give. That I bade THEE sing. Say Now,
- 6:39say which of us now? Oheth? Thanks better? Still, however,
- 6:46sing unto me, sing O my soul, and let me thank THEE.
- 6:53Thus spake Zarathustra end of Part three, chapter fifty eight, and