Part 13

They are crabs, for whom I have no fellow-feeling. Grasp them, they pinch you; Leave them alone, and they walk backward.

119

Crooked go great rivers and men, Crooked, but turned to their goal; That is their highest courage, They dreaded not crooked paths.

121

Wouldst catch them? Then speak to them As to stray sheep: "Your path, your path You have lost!" They follow all That flatter them so: "What? had we a path?" Each whispers the other: "It really seems that we have a path."

[The numbering given corresponds to that of the original, several fragments having been omitted.--TR.]

[Footnote 1: Nietzsche here alludes to Christian perfection, which he considers equivalent to harmlessness.--TR.]

[Footnote 2: Alluding to the saying of the Dominican monk Tetzel, who sold indulgences in the time of Luther: "When money leaps into the box, the soul leaps from hell to heaven!"--TR.]

HYMN TO LIFE.

_For Chorus and Orchestra._ WORDS BY LOU SALOMÉ. MUSIC BY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. Trans. BY HERMAN SCHEFFAUER. Arr. for Piano BY ADRIAN COLLINS. M.A.