This poem is a parody of the "Chorus Mysticus" which concludes the second part of Goethe's "Faust." Bayard Taylor's translation of the passage in "Faust" runs as follows:—
"All things transitory But as symbols are sent, Earth's insufficiency Here grows to Event: The Indescribable Here it is done: The Woman-Soul leadeth us Upward and on!"
Translated by Miss M. D. Petre. Inserted by permission of the editor of the _Nation_, in which it appeared on April 17, 1909.
Translated by Miss M. D. Petre. Inserted by permission of the editor of the _Nation_, in which it appeared on May 15, 1909.
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End of Project Gutenberg's The Joyful Wisdom, by Friedrich Nietzsche