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WEAL AND WOE. - ZaunköniG - 23.07.2007 WEAL AND WOE. O HIGHEST, strongest, sweetest woman-soul! Thou holdest in the compass of thy grace All the strange fate and passion of thy race Of the old, primal curse thou knowest the whole: Thine eyes, too wise, are heavy with the dole, The doubt, the dread of all this human maze; Thou in the virgin morning of thy days Hast felt the bitter waters o'er thee roll. Yet thou knowest, too, the terrible delight, The still content, the solemn ecstasy; Whatever sharp, sweet bliss thy kind may know. Thy spirit is deep for pleasure as for woe Deep as the rich, dark-caverned, awful sea That the keen-winded, glimmering dawn makes white. |