from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Who can know him — this one, whose face has dropped
down from its being to some other one
the rapid turning pages can alone —
sometimes — abruptly interrupt?
Even his mother lacks all certainty:
is he the shadowed one who reads, soaked through?
And we who had the time to spare — what do
we know of how he fades away, till he
looks up, fatigued and lifting with his eyes
whatever's happened in that book down there?
His look, which does not take, instead supplies
a nudge against this world so fully-finished:
like children playing — quiet, solitaire —
who suddenly must meet that world once closed.
And yet his features, which have been composed,
remain the same and undiminished.
Der Apfelgarten
Borgeby-Gård
Komm gleich nach dem Sonnenuntergange,
sieh das Abendgrün des Rasengrunds;
ist es nicht, als hätten wir es lange
angesammelt und erspart in uns,
um es jetzt aus Fühlen und Erinnern,
neuer Hoffnung, halbvergeßnem Freun,
noch vermischt mit Dunkel aus dem Innern,
in Gedanken vor uns hinzustreun
unter Bäume wie von Dürer, die
das Gewicht von hundert Arbeitstagen
in den überfüllten Früchten tragen,
dienend, voll Geduld, versuchend, wie
das, was alle Maße übersteigt,
noch zu heben ist und hinzugeben,
wenn man willig, durch ein langes Leben
nur das Eine will und wächst und schweigt?
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