HOLDERLIN

Thinking of his own feast
of bread and drinking wine
Dionysus in Greece,
deadly madness and divine

Holderlin sleepless
at his withdrawn sin
in elegies and visions
of his chorus gods' within
 
Pantheons of lyrical voices
in a musical realm
descend as choice friends
at own companions helm,

No eulogy, hymn or oratorio
with a classical poet's tone
nor clergy invited to hear
from your Patmos folio

For Romantic language
of nature forms its sounds
the attic age will reshape
to integrate all art's bounds.