seemeth to
me wisdom
for
hedgehogs.
They all
speak of
me when
they sit
around
their fire
in the
evening—they
speak of
me, but no
one
thinketh—of
me! This
is the new
stillness
which I
have
experienced:
their
noise
around me
spreadeth
a mantle
over my
thoughts.
They shout
to one
another:
“What is
this
gloomy
cloud
about to
do to us?
Let us see
that it
doth not
bring a
plague
upon us!”
And
recently
did a
woman
seize upon
her child
