Hyperion's Song of Destiny (Schicksalslied). Third stanza.

From the novel "Hyperion" (1799), by Friedrich Hoelderlin.

Yet to us is given //
To rest nowhere, //
Suffering humanity //
Shrinks and blindly falls from //
One hour to the next, //
Like water from cliff //
To cliff thrown, //
For years down into the unknown. //

Translated by Peter Lach-Lewinsky.

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