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Girl's Lament

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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When we were much alone — a child —

this tendency we showed was mild

(we were all children in those years).

Others would spend their days in fights,

but we had our own places — sights

and creatures, pictures and delights.

We had our paths, our fars, our nears.

I still thought life could never be

exhausted of that treasury

where I could see myself — be known

and grand. And shall all that no more

console me that was mine before,

nor know the child that was its own?

Suddenly I'man exile, cast

out into something hugely vast —

a solitude of such great breadth

that from my breasts high on their hills

my being — everything it feels —

cries out for either wings or death!

Liebes-Lied

Wie soll ich meine Seele halten, daß

sie nicht an deine rührt? Wie soll ich sie

hinheben über dich zu andern Dingen?

Ach gerne möcht ich sie bei irgendwas

Verlorenem im Dunkel unterbringen

an einer fremden stillen Stelle, die

nicht weiterschwingt, wenn deine Tiefen schwingen.

Doch alles, was uns anrührt, dich und mich,

nimmt uns zusammen wie ein Bogenstrich,

der aus zwei Saiten eine Stimme zieht.

Auf welches Instrument sind wir gespannt?

Und welcher Geiger hat uns in der Hand?

O süßes Lied.

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New Poems , pp. 5 - 6
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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