from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
His nod — barely perceptible — dismisses
all limits obligations can impart,
for the Eternal Coming thrills his heart
uplifted by such huge ellipses.
The deeps of Heaven stand before him, filled
with forms, and each calls, “Come! I will be known.”
But never ask his hands to bear your piled-
up cares; give him no burdens of your own.
For they may come to test you, raging through
the house at night; to get you in their hold —
a grip as if they had created you,
and at a stroke, broken you from your mold.
Römische Sarkophage
Was aber hindert uns zu glauben, daß
(so wie wir hingestellt sind und verteilt)
nicht eine kleine Zeit nur Drang und Haß
und dies Verwirrende in uns verweilt,
wie einst in dem verzierten Sarkophag
bei Ringen, Götterbildern, Gläsern, Bändern,
in langsam sich verzehrenden Gewändern
ein langsam Aufgelöstes lag —
bis es die unbekannten Munde schluckten,
die niemals reden. (Wo besteht und denkt
ein Hirn, um ihrer einst sich zu bedienen?)
Da wurde von den alten Aquädukten
ewiges Wasser in sie eingelenkt —:
das spiegelt jetzt und geht und glänzt in ihnen.
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