To The Sun God

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Where are you?  Drunk, my mind becomes
  Twilight after all your ecstasy.  For I just saw
  How the enrapturing young god,
  Tired from his journey,

Bathed his youthful hair in the golden clouds.
  And now my eyes follow after him,
  But he is gone away to reverent
  Nations which still honor him.

I love the earth, which mourns with me.
  Like children when they are upset, our grief
  Changes to sleep.  And as rustling winds
  Whisper over harp strings

Until the fingers of a master entice
  A prettier music, thus mist and dreams
  Play around us, until the beloved returns,
  And charges us with life and spirit.

© Friedrich Hölderlin