-For there is a salt which unites good with evil; and even the evilest is worthy, as spicing and as final over-foaming:-
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings- the ring of the return?
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love you, O Eternity!
For I love you, O Eternity!
5.
If I be fond of the sea, and all that is of the sea, and fondest of it when it angrily contradicts me:
If the exploring delight be in me, which impels sails to the undiscovered, if the seafarer's delight be in my delight:
If ever my rejoicing has called out: "The shore has vanished,- now has fallen from me the last chain-
The boundless roars around me, far away sparkle for me space and time,- well! cheer up! old heart!"-
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings- the ring of the return?
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love you, O Eternity!
For I love you, O Eternity!
6.
If my virtue be a dancer's virtue, and if I have often sprung with both feet into golden-emerald rapture:
