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The Dog

from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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The image of a world takes shape up there,

through glances he must constantly renew.

Some secret thing, though, comes at times, and where

he stands, stands next to him. In nosing through

that image, down there he's both strange and not —

some other neither welcomed nor cast out,

and spending his reality, in doubt

almost, on things his gaze has not quite got

though prodding, still, whatever will resist,

and pushing, pleading, till he nearly knows;

assenting to what he at last forgoes

because if he does not, he won't exist.

Der Käferstein

Sind nicht Sterne fast in deiner Nähe

und was giebt es, das du nicht umspannst,

da du dieser harten Skarabäe

Karneolkern gar nicht fassen kannst

ohne jenen Raum, der ihre Schilder

niederhält, auf deinem ganzen Blut

mitzutragen; niemals war er milder,

näher, hingegebener. Er ruht

seit Jahrtausenden auf diesen Käfern,

wo ihn keiner braucht und unterbricht;

und die Käfer schließen sich und schläfern

unter seinem wiegenden Gewicht.

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New Poems , pp. 375 - 376
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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