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 THE SECOND DANCE-SONG 33!

'Yea,' I answered hesitating, 'but thou also know- est ' And I told her something into her ear, in the midst of all the confused, yellow, stupid tresses of her hair.

' Thou knowest that, O Zarathustra ? That no one knoweth.'

And we gazed at each other, and looked at the green meadow over which the cool even was spread- ing, and wept together. Then life was dearer unto me than all my wisdom had ever been unto me." v Thus spake Zarathustra.

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One!

man ! Lose not sight !

Two! What saith the deep midnight ?

Three !

1 lay in sleep, in sleep ;

Four! From deep dream I woke to light.

Five! The world is deep,

Six! And deeper than ever day thought it might.

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