7.
Leave me alone! Leave me alone! I am too pure for thee. Touch me not! Hath not
my world just now become perfect?
My skin is too pure for thy hands. Leave me alone, thou dull, doltish, stupid
day! Is not the midnight brighter?
The purest are to be masters of the world, the least known, the strongest, the
midnight-souls, who are brighter and deeper than any day.
O day, thou gropest for me? Thou feelest for my happiness? For thee am I rich,
lonesome, a treasure-pit, a gold chamber?
O world, thou wantest me? Am I worldly for thee? Am I spiritual for thee? Am I
divine for thee? But day and world, ye are too coarse,-
-Have cleverer hands, grasp after deeper happiness, after deeper unhappiness,
grasp after some God; grasp not after me:
-Mine unhappiness, my happiness is deep, thou strange day, but yet am I no God,
no God's-hell: deep is its woe.
