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Zarathustra's roundelay
Poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zarathustra's roundelay (German: Zarathustra's Rundgesang),[1] also called the Midnight Song (Mitternachts-Lied[2]) or Once More (German: Noch ein Mal),[3] is a poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
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The poem first appears in Thus Spoke Zarathustra's chapter "The Second Dance-Song", then reappears in a later chapter, "The Drunken Song".[3]
The poem was used by Gustav Mahler as the text of the 4th movement of his Symphony No 3.