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Foreman<br /> <a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/s/91v33pw0ktgdgm1/prometheusaudio.mp3" target="_blank">Click to hear me recite the original German</a><br /> <a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ngh5bdv6m0bjh44/PrometheusEng.mp3" target="_blank">Click to hear me recite the English</a><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Cover Your heavens, Zeus,</i><br /> <i>With cloud vapor</i><br /> <i>And try Your strike, a</i><i>s a boy </i><br /> <i>Beheading thistles,</i><br /> <i>Against oaken tree and mountain height;</i><br /> <i>You still must leave me</i><br /> <i>My Earth standing </i><br /> <i>And my hut which You did not build,</i><br /> <i>And my hearth, home's glowing</i><br /> <i>Fire which You begrudge me.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>I know of nothing poorer</i><br /> <i>Under the sun than You gods!</i><br /> <i>Indigently You feed</i><br /> <i>Your majesty</i><br /> <i>On proffered sacrifice </i><br /> <i>And breathfuls of prayer.</i><br /> <i>You would starve to naught</i><br /> <i>If children and beggars</i><br /> <i>Were not such fools full of hope.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>When I was a child</i><br /> <i>That knew not its way in the world</i><br /> <i>I would lift my deluded eyes</i><br /> <i>To the sun as though out beyond it</i><br /> <i>There were an ear to hear my complaints</i><br /> <i>A heart like mine</i><br /> <i>That would take pity on my oppression.</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Who came to my aid</i><br /> <i>Against the Titans' and their insolent rage?</i><br /> <i>Who delivered me from death,</i><br /> <i>From slavery?</i><br /> <i>Was it not <b>you</b>,</i><i> sacred heart ablaze,</i><br /> <i>Who achieved it all?</i><br /> <i>And, swindled in your youth and good will,</i><br /> <i>Did you not glow, with thanks fit for a Savior,</i><br /> <i>For that mere Sleeper on high?</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>I should honor You? For what?</i><br /> <i>Did You ever gentle</i><br /> <i>The ache of my burden?</i><br /> <i>Did You ever dry</i><br /> <i>The tears of tribulation?</i><br /> <i>Was I not forged to manhood</i><br /> <i>By Time Almighty</i><br /> <i>And Eternal Destiny,</i><br /> <i>My masters and Yours?</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Perhaps You believed</i><br /> <i>I should find life hateful,</i><br /> <i>And flee to the wilderness</i><br /> <i>Because not all my blossom-dreams </i><br /> <i>Reached ripeness?</i><br /> <i><br /></i> <i>Behold</i><br /> <i>Here I sit, fashioning men</i><br /> <i>In my own image,</i><br /> <i>A race after my likeness,</i><br /> <i>A race that will suffer and weep,</i><br /> <i>And rejoice and delight with heads held high</i><br /> <i>And heed Your will no more</i><br /> <i>Than I!</i><br /> <b><br /></b> <b>The Original:</b><br /> <br /> Prometheus<br /> <br /> Bedecke deinen Himmel, Zeus,<br /> Mit Wolkendunst<br /> Und 眉be, dem Knaben gleich,<br /> Der Disteln k枚pft,<br /> An Eichen dich und Bergesh枚hn;<br /> Mu脽t mir meine Erde<br /> Doch lassen stehn<br /> Und meine H眉tte, die du nicht gebaut,<br /> Und meinen Herd,<br /> Um dessen Glut<br /> Du mich beneidest.<br /> <br /> Ich kenne nichts 脛rmeres<br /> Unter der Sonn als euch, G枚tter!<br /> Ihr n盲hret k眉mmerlich<br /> Von Opfersteuern<br /> Und Gebetshauch<br /> Eure Majest盲t<br /> Und darbtet, w盲ren<br /> Nicht Kinder und Bettler<br /> Hoffnungsvolle Toren.<br /> <br /> Da ich ein Kind war,<br /> Nicht wu脽te, wo aus noch ein,<br /> Kehrt ich mein verirrtes Auge<br /> Zur Sonne, als wenn dr眉ber w盲r<br /> Ein Ohr, zu h枚ren meine Klage,<br /> Ein Herz wie meins,<br /> Sich des Bedr盲ngten zu erbarmen.<br /> <br /> Wer half mir<br /> Wider der Titanen 脺bermut?<br /> Wer rettete vom Tode mich,<br /> Von Sklaverei?<br /> Hast du nicht alles selbst vollendet,<br /> Heilig gl眉hend Herz?<br /> Und gl眉htest jung und gut,<br /> Betrogen, Rettungsdank<br /> Dem Schlafenden da droben?<br /> <br /> Ich dich ehren? Wof眉r?<br /> Hast du die Schmerzen gelindert<br /> Je des Beladenen?<br /> Hast du die Tr盲nen gestillet<br /> Je des Ge盲ngsteten?<br /> Hat nicht mich zum Manne geschmiedet<br /> Die allm盲chtige Zeit<br /> Und das ewige Schicksal,<br /> Meine Herrn und deine?<br /> <br /> W盲hntest du etwa,<br /> Ich sollte das Leben hassen,<br /> In W眉sten fliehen,<br /> Weil nicht alle<br /> Bl眉tentr盲ume reiften?<br /> <br /> Hier sitz ich, forme Menschen<br /> Nach meinem Bilde,<br /> Ein Geschlecht, das mir gleich sei,<br /> Zu leiden, zu weinen,<br /> Zu genie脽en und zu freuen sich,<br /> Und dein nicht zu achten,<br /> Wie ich!<br /></div> <div style='clear: both;'></div> </div> <div class='post-footer'> <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'><span class='post-author vcard'> </span> <span class='post-timestamp'> </span> <span class='post-comment-link'> </span> <span class='post-icons'> <span class='item-action'> <a 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