Goethe’s Zahme Xenien, his tame epigrams, include a verse of five short lines:
Wie das Gestirn,
Ohne Hast,
Aber ohne Rast,
Drehe sich jeder
Um die eigne Last.
Like the star, without haste but without rest, let each one turn around his own load. In German, Hast, haste, rhymes with Rast, rest, and with Last, load.