Ein Werwolfgedicht
Oh! ye immortal gods! What is Theogony?
Oh! thou, too, mortal man! What is philanthropy?
Oh! World, which was and is, what is cosmogony?
Some people have accused me of misanthropy;
And yet I know no more than the mahogany
That forms this desk, of what they mean, - Lycanthropy
I comprehend, for without transformation
Men become wolves on any slight occasion.