Hölderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine". Martin Heidegger
And eventually astonishment spread across the heavens
For there was One as great in faith, as they themselves,
The powers that bless from on high;
Wherefore they sent the messenger, who, quick to recognize her
Smilingly thinks to himself: You, unshatterable one,
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Another word must test, and youthfully
He calls it loud, looking at Germania:
“You it is, the chosen one,
“All-loving and a grave good fortune
“Have you become strong to bear.
| V | Since then, when hidden in the woods and flowering poppy |
Full of sweet slumber, drunken, long you took
No heed of me, until lesser ones too sensed
Your virgin’s pride and were astonished whose you were and whence you came,
Yet you knew it not yourself. I mistook you not,
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And in secret, while you dreamt, I left for you
Departing at midday, a sign of friendship,
The flower of the mouth, and solitary was your speaking.
Yet a fullness of golden words too you bestowed,
Blissful one! with the rivers, and they streamed inexhaustibly
Into the regions all. For almost like the holy one,
Who is Mother of all, and carries the abyss,
Otherwise named the Concealed One by humans,
So is of loves and sufferings
And full of intimations too
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And full of peace your breast.
VI
O drink morning breezes,
Until you are open,
And name what is before your eyes,
No longer may the unspoken
Remain a mystery,
Though long it has been veiled;
For shame is fitting for mortals,
And thus to speak most of the time,
Of gods is also wise.
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Yet where more overflowing than the purest wellsprings
The gold has become and anger in the heavens earnest,
Between day and night
Something true must once appear.
Threefold you shall circumscribe it,
Yet unspoken too, as it is found there,
Innocent one, it must remain.
| VII | O name you daughter of the holy Earth! |
Once the Mother. On the rock the waters rush
And storms in the woods, and in her name too
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From ancient times echoes the divinity of old once more.
How different it is! And unmistakably gleam and speak
From great distance also cheering things to come.
But in the middle of time
Peacefully with hallowed
Virgin Earth lives Aether
And gladly, to be remembered,
The needless dwell
Hospitably among the needless
At your feast days
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Germania, where you are priestess
And defenselessly give counsel
Around the kings and peoples.
1. Hölderlin, Sämtliche Werke. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, begun by Norbert von Hellingrath, continued by Friedrich Seebass and Ludwig von Pigenot. Second edition. Berlin, 1923. The Roman numerals indicate the volume; page numbers are given in Arabic.
2. Hölderlin, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe in five volumes. Kritisch-historische Ausgabe by Franz Zinkernagel. Leipzig, 1914.
3. IV, 181ff.
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