But where Danger threatens
The Rescuer appears."
These words mean that the libido has now sunk to the lowest depths, where "the danger is great." (Faust, Part II, Mother scene.) There "the God is near"; there man may find the inner sun, his own nature, sun-*like and self-renewing, hidden in the mother-womb like the sun in the nighttime:
". . . In Chasms
And in darkness dwell
The eagles; and fresh and fearlessly
The Sons of the Alps pass swiftly over the abyss
Upon lightly swinging bridges."
With these words the dark phantastic poem passes on. The eagle, the bird of the sun, dwells in darkness—the libido has hidden itself, but high above it the inhabitants of the mountains pass, probably the gods ("Ye are walking above in the light"), symbols of the sun wandering across the sky, like the eagle flying over the depths:
". . . Above and around are reared
The summits of Time,
And the loved ones, though near,
Live on deeply separated mountains.
So give us waters of innocence,
And give us wings of true understanding,
With which to pass across and to return again."
The first is a gloomy picture of the mountains and of time—although caused by the sun wandering over the mountains, the following picture a nearness, and at the
