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4/4 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, IV

Ye higher men, for yourselves it longeth, delight, the unruly, blissful one, for your woe, ye ill-con- stituted ! For failures all eternal delight longeth !

For all delight seeketh itself. Therefore it also seeketh woe ! Oh, happiness ! Oh, pain ! Oh, break, heart ! Ye higher men, learn that eternity is sought by delight.

Eternity of all things is sought by delight, eternity deep by all delight!

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Have ye now learnt my song? Guessed ye what it seeketh ? Up ! up ! Ye higher men, sing now my roundelay !

Sing now yourselves the song whose name is ' Once more,' whose sense is ' For all eternity ! ' Sing, ye higher men, Zarathustra's roundelay !

O man ! Lose not sight !

What saith the deep midnight?

'/ lay in sleep, in sleep ;

From deep dream I woke to light.

The world is deep,

And deeper than ever day thought it might.

Deep is its woe,

And deeper still than woe delight.'

Saith woe : ' Pass, go !

Eternity ' j souglit by all delight,

Eternity deep by all delight ! ' '

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