To love and be beloved; / Men and gods have not outlearned it; / And, how oft soe'er they've turned it, / 'Tis not to be improved.

Chromosomal DNA was denatured in 70% formamide/2xSSC at 70°C for 60 seconds, followed by preannealing the probes for 30 minutes at 37°C. The slides immersed immediately in cold 70% ethanol for 4 minutes followed by the ethanol series described above.

It may seem quite straightforward to render line 15 metrically regular by means of a grammatical trick: the style as bright as soul. However, the stylistic feature of the adjectival compound does not occur in isolation but is employed again in the following line, dem Staubfaden himmelswüst, where a grammatical circumlocution in translation would be metrically disadvantageous. Both compounds, seelenhell as well as himmelswüst, should therefore be translated as compounds. When Michael Hamburger remarks that German lends itself to the formation of compound words in a way that English does not (in Celan 1988: 24), he probably refers to nouns such as Türspalt or Algenteilchen.

Certainly, though I dare not antedate the ſorrowes of our Syon, or raiſe a feare or iealouſie without a ground; yet when I doe but ſeriouſly and cordially ſuruay, that intollerable pride; that aboundance of idleneſſe; that fulneſſe of bread; that luſting after ſtrange fleſh (the ſinnes that drew downe fire and brimſtone vpon Sodome long agoe;) thoſe monſtrous habites, faſhions and attires: that exceſſiue vanity, Atheiſme and prophaneneſſe: that execrable and frequent banning, ſwearing, curſing and blaſpheming: that greedie couetouſneſſe, extortion and oppreſſion; that fearefull murther and bloudſhed; that ſcurrility, effæminacie, wantonneſſe, fornication, whoredome, adulterie and vncleaneneſſe: that generall neglect, contempt and hatred of God, of grace, of goodneſſe, and the Goſpell: that ſtupified and ſenceleſſe ſecurity, and hardneſſe of heart, in the middeſt of feares and dangers: that degenerating and growing worſe and worſe, not withſtanding all Gods iudgements, which ſtill encreaſe vpon vs, becauſe our ſinnes encreaſe: that diſſoluteneſſe, that drunkenneſſe, deboiſtneſſe, and exceſſe of Healthes; together with thoſe other troopes of ſundry ſinnes, which walke ſo bold and thick among vs, in deſpite of all thoſe meanes which GOD hath vſed to reclaime vs from them: I cannot but conclude as others doe: that theſe abominations and ſinnes of ours (eſpecially in theſe times of feare and danger, which cry and call for true repentance) prognoſticate no victory, no good, no bleſſing, nor ſucceſſe: but vndoubted ruine and deſtruction to vs, vnleſſe we ſpeedily repent vs of them.