Vigilance: Hölderlin: Im Walde / In the Forest


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Official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, 13 March:
photo by Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon




Hear the watchman's horn at night
After midnight about the fifth hour





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Man who was evacuated from vicinity of the Fukushima nuclear plant washes his spectacles at Japanese Defense Forces' makeshift facility to cleanse people who might have been exposed to radiation, Nihonmatsu, 14 March: photo by Reuters/Yuriko Nakao





Horet das Horn des Wächters bei Nacht
Nach Mitternacht ists um die fünfte Stunde






Satellite image of earthquake-and tsunami-damaged nuclear reactor units, after four explosions, Dai ichi Power Plant, Japan, 17 March 2011: photo by DigitalGlobe

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1783): Im Walde / In the Forest, fragment (excerpt), c. 1803-1806, in Hymns and Fragments, translated by Richard Sieburth, 1984