Lyric + 

From Day to Day, from Night to Night + 

From day to day, from night to night + 

My summer passes; autumn creeps + 

Nearer; before mine eyes the light + 

Fades out; my soul is blind and sleeps. + 

Everything sleeps; and I ponder: + 

Do I yet live, or do I wander, + 

A dead thing, through my term of years, + 

A void of laughter as of tears? + 

Come to me, my fate! Where art thou? + 

Oh, I have no fate. + 

God, if Thou dost scorn to love me, + 

Grant me but Thy hate! + 

Only let my heart not wither + 

Slowly, day by day, + 

Useless as a fallen tree-trunk + 

Rotting by the way. + 

Let me live, and live in spirit + 

Loving all mankind; + 

Or, if not, then let my curses + 

Strike the sunlight blind. + 

Wretched is the fettered captive, + 

Dying, and a slave; + 

But more wretched he that, living, + 

Sleeps, as in a grave, + 

Till he falls asleep for ever, + 

Leaving not a sign + 

That there faded into darkness + 

Something once divine. + 

Come to me, my fate! Where art thou? + 

Oh, I have no fate. + 

God, if Thou dost scorn to love me, + 

Grant me but Thy hate! + 