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n6 Gerhart Hauptmann
into the very Light, as thou hast flown, must per
ish, if he once fall back to earth."
Thus speak the worldly wise. As if death
could still the burning thirst for light; as if the
hunger for the ideal could ever be appeased by the
thought of destruction ! The worldly wise never
feel the irresistible urge to dare the cruel fates.
With the adder in Maxim Gorki s
"
Song of the
Falcon" they sneer, "What is the sky? An
empty place. . . .
Why disturb the soul with the
desire to soar into the sky? . . . Queer birds,"
they laugh at the falcons.
"
Not knowing the
earth and grieving on it, they yearn for the sky,
seeking for light in the sultry desert. For it is
only a desert, with no food and no supporting
place for a living body."
The Heinrichs are the social falcons, and
though they perish when they fall to earth, they
die in the triumphant glory of having beheld the
sun, of having braved the storm, defied the clouds
and mastered the air.
The sea sparkles m the glowing light, the waves
dash against the shore. In their lion-like roar a
song resounds about the proud falcons :
"
O dar
ing Falcon, in the battle with sinister forces you
lose your life. But the time will come when your
precious blood will illumine, like the burning torch
of truth, the dark horizon of man; when your
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