Today's Stichomancy for Niccolo Machiavelli

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

Glowing? Poor heart!

There, on the hill,-- Heavenly might! But enough glow Thither to wend, Where is my cot!

1771. ----- THE SEA-VOYAGE.

MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me,