from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Artless, she stands at the façade's sublime
ascent (near that cathedral's window-rose),
holding the apple in the apple-pose,
guiltless and guilty, once and for all time,
of all of those to whom she's given birth
since from the circles of eternity
she forged — and fought — her way so lovingly
across the newborn year that was the earth.
She gladly would have stayed there longer — oh,
just one more day — so she might learn how they
(the beasts) lived free of rancor, blood, and woe.
But since she saw that Adam meant to go,
she went with him toward death, making her way.
And God? Him, she had scarcely learned to know.
Irre im Garten
Dijon
Noch schließt die aufgegebene Kartause
sich um den Hof, als würde etwas heil.
Auch die sie jetzt bewohnen, haben Pause
und nehmen nicht am Leben draußen teil.
Was irgend kommen konnte, das verlief.
Nun gehn sie gerne mit bekannten Wegen,
und trennen sich und kommen sich entgegen,
als ob sie kreisten, willig, primitiv.
Zwar manche pflegen dort die Frühlingsbeete,
demütig, dürftig, hingekniet;
aber sie haben, wenn es keiner sieht,
eine verheimlichte, verdrehte
Gebärde für das zarte frühe Gras,
ein prüfendes, verschüchtertes Liebkosen:
denn das ist freundlich, und das Rot der Rosen
wird vielleicht drohend sein und Übermaß
und wird vielleicht schon wieder übersteigen,
was ihre Seele wiederkennt und weiß.
Dies aber läßt sich noch verschweigen:
wie gut das Gras ist und wie leis.
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