The Works of J. W. von Goethe/Volume 9/Genial Impulse

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GENIAL IMPULSE.

Thus roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes,
Now serious am, now seek to please,
Now love and hate in turns one sees;
The motives now are those, now these;
Now nothings, now realities.
Thus roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes.