I will go alone over the mountain | A poem by Erich Mühsam, 1909

Arthur Rackham

I will go alone over the mountain,
And none shall know my way;
Because who would see my pathway to the heights
Would tear me away from that path.

I will go alone over the mountain,
My song will sound unheard among the rock,
And my complaint will be lost in the wind; –
Only the one who sings with his own heart, shall sing; –

Only the one who sorrows with his own heart, shall sorrow;
Only the one who knows with his own heart, shall see. –
It is up to me! I shall renounce the world,
And will go alone over the mountain.