“ ‘I come again with this sun, with this earth, with this eagle, with this serpent⁠— not to a new life, or a better life, or a similar life:

“ ‘⁠—I come again eternally to this identical and selfsame life, in its greatest and its smallest, to teach again the eternal return of all things⁠—

“ ‘⁠—To speak again the word of the great noontide of earth and man, to announce again to man the Superman.

“ ‘I have spoken my word. I break down by my word: so willeth mine eternal fate⁠—as announcer do I succumb!

“ ‘The hour hath now come for the down-goer to bless himself. Thus⁠— endeth Zarathustra’s down-going.’ ”⁠⸺