Journal created:
on 2 April 2002 (#515407)
Updated:
on 18 August 2011
Name:
inventor of nothing
Location:
94117, California, United States
BACCALAUREUS.
This is the noblest call for youthful soul!
The world was not, until I made it whole;
I raised the sun from ocean where it lay;
For me the moon began her changeful way;
The day stood forth in beauty at my feet,
The green earth blossomed my approach to greet.
A sign from me, and in that primal night
The stars unveiled the splendour of their light.
And who but me your liberation wrought
From bonds of philistines that fettered thought?
But I, a soul inspired by freedom's might,
Pursue with joy my star of inner light,
And swiftly, in the rapture of my mind,
I speed to glory, darkness left behind.
--Goethe, Faust
This is the noblest call for youthful soul!
The world was not, until I made it whole;
I raised the sun from ocean where it lay;
For me the moon began her changeful way;
The day stood forth in beauty at my feet,
The green earth blossomed my approach to greet.
A sign from me, and in that primal night
The stars unveiled the splendour of their light.
And who but me your liberation wrought
From bonds of philistines that fettered thought?
But I, a soul inspired by freedom's might,
Pursue with joy my star of inner light,
And swiftly, in the rapture of my mind,
I speed to glory, darkness left behind.
--Goethe, Faust