What are you blowing towards me, Winds, what do you bring again?

There is a rustling in all the tree-tops....

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“Why do you wake my soul?

Why do ye stir in me the past, ye Kind ones?

Oh, spare me, and let them rest; oh, do not mock

Those ashes of my joy....

“O change your changeless gods—

And grow in your youth over the old ones.

And if you would be akin to the mortals