“ Be still, my heart, away with pain!
Though passion stirs again
in blood that now flows slowly
and leads to paths once known,
these paths you tread in vain-
for youth has flown.
Though passion stirs again
in blood that now flows slowly
and leads to paths once known,
these paths you tread in vain-
for youth has flown.
— Herman Hesse, Gertrude.
