Globusspiel

"... Tito looked tensely across at the dark rocky ridge, behind which the sky was undulating in the morning light. Now a piece of the rocky ridge flashed violently like glowing metal about to melt, the ridge became blurred and suddenly seemed to have become lower, seemed to be melting down, and out of the glowing gap stepped dazzlingly the star of the day...."

Source: Hermann Hesse, Collected Poems, Sixth Volume, Glass Bead Game, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, p.538f