The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche/Volume 10/Souls that Lack Determination

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Souls that Lack Determination (1910)
by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Paul V. Cohn and Maude D. Petre

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German Original published 1887 as part of the second edition of The Joyful Wisdom ('La Gaya Scienza'). This translation published in 1910 as part of Oscar Levy's The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche volume 10.

Friedrich Nietzsche1194871Souls that Lack Determination — Songs of Prince Free-as-a-Bird1910Paul V. Cohn and Maude D. Petre

"SOULS THAT LACK DETERMINATION."

Souls that lack determination
Rouse my wrath to white-hot flame!
All their glory's but vexation,
All their praise but self-contempt and shame!

Since I baffle their advances.
Will not clutch their leading-string.
They would wither me with glances
Bitter-sweet, with hopeless envy sting.

Let them with fell curses shiver.
Curl their lip the livelong day!
Seek me as they will, forever
Helplessly their eyes shall go astray!

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