Autograph manuscript signed ("H Hesse"), fair copy of the poem "The Savior" [in German] by HESSE, Hermann

Some light soiling. Two pages on a bifolium beneath a woodcut hand-colored by Hesse, 15 lines in four stanzas, undated. "Again and again he is born man, / Speaks to pious, speaks to deaf ears, / Comes near to us and is lost to us anew. // Again and again he must rise up alone, / Bear the needs and longing of all brothers, / Always is he nailed to the Cross anew. // Again and again God would proclaim His being, / Would have the heavenly empty into the valley of sin, / The spirit, the eternal, into the flesh. // Again and again, in these days, too, / The Savior is afoot to ask, / To encounter our fears, dreams, / Questions, laments with his quiet gaze, / Which we dare not meet, / Because only children's eyes can bear it."