urn:lj:scribbld.com:atom1:spinneret Chloe Weaver strangelylovely@gmail.com Chloe Weaver 2008-08-11T21:31:41Z urn:lj:scribbld.com:atom1:spinneret:442 2008-08-11T21:31:41Z 2008-08-11T21:31:41Z Give me just one summer, stark sisters,<br /> One more autumn to ripen my song.<br /> Then I’ll gladly die, my heart filled<br /> With that sweet music.<br /><br />The soul, which never had its godly rights<br /> In life, won’t find peace either.<br /> When just once the sacred lies down<br /> In my heart, the poem will find perfection.<br /><br />Then I will welcome the world<br /> Of silence and shadows and happily leave<br /> My song behind—once you’ve lived<br /> Like the gods, what else is there?<br /><br /><br />-Friedrich Holderlin-