"Zarathustra's roundelay" (), also called the "Midnight Song" (Mitternachts-Lied) or "Once More" (), is a poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The poem first appears in Thus Spoke Zarathustra's chapter "The Second Dance-Song", then reappears in a later chapter, "The Drunken Song".
The poem was used by Gustav Mahler as the text of the 4th movement of his Symphony No 3.
German original
Selected English translations Alexander Tille:
Thomas Common:
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Interpretation
See also
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche God is dead Apollonian and Dionysian
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