from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
The angel stood there. “My command is this:
commit yourself to me. I've been denied,
till now, the soul of one who will surpass
those lovers filling up with bitterness
even the sweetest at their side.
It's true I know your loving's scarcely better
(don't interrupt me; you're mistaken),
but still, you glow. And in the Book, each letter
says you will lead to that forsaken
solitude a crowd that's vast.
Deep is that door, and I require
you let in those whom I have classed
as yours, so, ripening, they'll outlast
Heloïse, and long out-cry her.
Sankt Georg
Und sie hatte ihn die ganze Nacht
angerufen, hingekniet, die schwache
wache Jungfrau: Siehe, dieser Drache,
und ich weiß es nicht, warum er wacht.
Und da brach er aus dem Morgengraun
auf dem Falben, strahlend Helm und Haubert,
und er sah sie, traurig und verzaubert
aus dem Knieen aufwärtsschaun
zu dem Glanze, der er war.
Und er sprengte glänzend längs der Länder
abwärts mit erhobnem Doppelhänder
in die offene Gefahr,
viel zu furchtbar, aber doch erfleht.
Und sie kniete knieender, die Hände
fester faltend, daß er sie bestände;
denn sie wußte nicht, daß der besteht,
den ihr Herz, ihr reines und bereites,
aus dem Licht des göttlichen Geleites
niederreißt. Zuseiten seines Streites
stand, wie Türme stehen, ihr Gebet.
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