Friedrich Nietzsche - Fame and Eternity lyrics

1 How long will you sit on your misfortune? Watch out! You hatch me yet Another egg, A basilisk-egg Out of your long misery. Why did Zarathustra sneak along the mountains? — Distrustful, ulcerous, gloomy, One who long lies in wait — But suddenly, lightning, Bright, terrible, a blast Heavenwards out of the abyss: The mountains themselves shake from The bowels of the earth ... Where hate and lightning-flash Become one, a curse — Now Zarathustra's wrath cuts across the mountains, A storm-cloud creeps along its way. Sneak off, one who has a last cover! Into bed with you, you weakling! Now rolling thunder over the vaults, Then shaking, as the beams and wall, Then flickering lightning and sulphur-yellow truths — Zarathustra curses ... 2 This coin, with which All the world pays, Fame — I grasp this coin with gloves, With disgust I trample it under me. Who wants to be paid? Those for sale ... Whoever is for sale, seizes With sticky hands All the world's coin-jingle-jangle fame! — You want to buy them? They're all for sale. But offer much! Jingle with a full purse! — Otherwise you fortify them, You fortify their virtue ... They are all virtuous. Fame and virtue—it rhymes. ["Ruhm und Tugend—das reimt sich."] As long as the world lives, It will pay virtue-prattling With fame-rattling — The world lives on this noise ... Before all the virtuous I want to be guilty, Called guilty of each great offence! Before all fame-trumpets My ambition will become a worm — Among those I desire To be the lowest ... This coin, with which All the world pays, Fame — I grasp this coin with gloves, With disgust I trample it under me. 3 Hush! — From great things—I see a great deal! — One should keep silent Or speak greatly: Speak greatly, my delighted wisdom! Up there I see — Rolling seas of light: — Oh night, oh silence, oh d**hly silent uproar! ... I see a sign — From the distant beyond A glittering constellation slowly sinks towards me ... 4 Supreme star of being! Tablet of eternal forms! You come towards me? — Why hasn't anyone beheld Your mute beauty — Why doesn't it escape my gaze? Sign of necessity! Tablet of eternal forms! — But of course you know it: What everyone hates, What I alone love, That you are eternal! That you are necessary! My love is ever ignited Only through necessity. Sign of necessity! Supreme star of being! — That no desire attains, That no No desecrates, Eternal Yes of being, Eternally I am your Yes: For I love you, O eternity! — —