Thus Spake Zarathustra Part 4 LXXIV - The Song of Melancholy

In which Zarathustra finds solace and kinship in the pure air with his beloved animals, the eagle and serpent, away from the company of the higher men, whilst an old magician wrestles visibly with his melancholy demon and muses on the nature of truth and poetry’s wild, impetuous spirit. The magician’s haunting song unfolds a vision of yearning and disguise, of the poet’s fierce joy and folly, caught between day’s harsh clarity and night’s enigmatic shadows.