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A youth impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge	A
To roam to Sais in fair Egypt's land	B
The priesthood's secret learning to explore	C
Had passed through many a grade with eager haste	D
And still was hurrying on with fond impatience	E
Scarce could the Hierophant impose a rein	F
Upon his headlong efforts What avails	E
A part without the whole the youth exclaimed	G
Can there be here a lesser or a greater	H
The truth thou speak'st of like mere earthly dross	E
Is't but a sum that can be held by man	I
In larger or in smaller quantity	J
Surely 'tis changeless indivisible	K
Deprive a harmony of but one note	L
Deprive the rainbow of one single color	H
And all that will remain is naught so long	M
As that one color that one note is wanting	N
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While thus they converse held they chanced to stand	B
Within the precincts of a lonely temple	K
Where a veiled statue of gigantic size	E
The youth's attention caught In wonderment	O
He turned him toward his guide and asked him saying	N
What form is that concealed beneath yon veil	P
Truth was the answer What the young man cried	Q
When I am striving after truth alone	R
Seekest thou to hide that very truth from me	J
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The Godhead's self alone can answer thee	J
Replied the Hierophant 'Let no rash mortal	K
Disturb this veil ' said he 'till raised by me	J
For he who dares with sacrilegious hand	B
To move the sacred mystic covering	N
He' said the Godhead Well 'will see the truth '	-
Strangely oracular indeed And thou	S
Hast never ventured then to raise the veil	P
I Truly not I never even felt	T
The least desire Is't possible If I	U
Were severed from the truth by nothing else	E
Than this thin gauze And a divine decree	J
His guide broke in Far heavier than thou thinkest	T
Is this thin gauze my son Light to thy hand	T
It may be but most weighty to thy conscience	E
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The youth now sought his home absorbed in thought	T
His burning wish to solve the mystery	J
Banished all sleep upon his couch he lay	V
Tossing his feverish limbs When midnight came	W
He rose and toward the temple timidly	J
Led by a mighty impulse bent his way	V
The walls he scaled and soon one active spring	N
Landed the daring boy beneath the dome	X
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Behold him now in utter solitude	T
Welcomed by naught save fearful deathlike silence	E
A silence which the echo of his steps	E
Alone disturbs as through the vaults he paces	E
Piercing an opening in the cupola	Y
The moon cast down her pale and silvery beams	E
And awful as a present deity	J
Glittering amid the darkness of the pile	Z
In its long veil concealed the statue stands	E
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With hesitating step he now draws near	A2
His impious hand would fain remove the veil	P
Sudden a burning chill assails his bones	E
And then an unseen arm repulses him	B2
Unhappy one what wouldst thou do Thus cries	E
A faithful voice within his trembling breast	T
Wouldst thou profanely violate the All Holy	J
'Tis true the oracle declared 'Let none	C2
Venture to raise the veil till raised by me '	-
But did the oracle itself not add	T
That he who did so would behold the truth	D2
Whate'er is hid behind I'll raise the veil	P
And then he shouted Yes I will behold it	T
Behold it	T
Repeats in mocking tone the distant echo	E2
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He speaks and with the word lifts up the veil	P
Would you inquire what form there met his eye	U
I know not but when day appeared the priests	E
Found him extended senseless pale as death	F2
Before the pedestal of Isis' statue	T
What had been seen and heard by him when there	G2
He never would disclose but from that hour	H
His happiness in life had fled forever	H
And his deep sorrow soon conducted him	B2
To an untimely grave Woe to that man	I
He warning said to every questioner	H
Woe to that man who wins the truth by guilt	T
For truth so gained will ne'er reward its owner	H

Friedrich Schiller

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