Strebt zu der höchsten frucht gleicher gesinungen auf * *
Sich verbinde das paar, finde die höhere welt.
Goethe, “Metamorphose der Pflanzen.”
“Holy Love strives after the loftiest fruit of equal dispositions—that those who love may be one, and find the Higher World!”
XXX. “So like a god he to her eyes doth seem,
Who came from demon-hate her soul to free.”
Clyt. Οὐκ ἔχω βωμὸν καταφυγεῖν ἄλλον, ἢ τὸ σὸν γόνυ,
Οὐδὲ φίλος οὐδεὶς γελᾷ μοι. * * *
Eurip. Iphig. in Aul. 911.
Achil. Θεὸς ἐγὼ πέφῃνά σοι
Μέγιστος, οὐκ ὢν.