... " Tito gazed intently at the dark, rocky ridge beyond which the sky undulated in the morning light. Now a section of the ridge flashed intensely like glowing, molten metal; the ridge became indistinct and suddenly seemed lower, as if melting away, and from the glowing gap emerged the dazzling star of the day. At the same time, the ground, the house, the bathing hut, and the near shore of the lake were illuminated, and the two figures, standing in the intense radiance, immediately felt the comforting warmth of this light. The boy, filled with the solemn beauty of the moment and the blissful feeling of his youth and strength, stretched his limbs with rhythmic arm movements, which his whole body soon followed, to lie in a an enthusiastic dance to celebrate the dawn and express his profound agreement with the surging and radiant elements around him. ... The young man appeared to him even stronger and more significant than he had previously imagined, but also harder, more inaccessible, less spiritual, more pagan. This festive and sacrificial dance of the For the frantically enthusiastic, it was more than the speeches and verses of the young Pliny had once been; it raised him several levels higher, but also made him more alien, more intangible, more vulnerable to the call. "appear more unattainable" ....

Source: Hermann Hesse, Collected Poems, Volume Six, The Glass Bead Game, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, pp. 538f