from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
The city now no longer drifts like bait
to catch the rising days. Palaces clink
against your glance (they glint and scintillate,
brittle-bright). Summer hangs upon the brink
from gardens — marionettes in tired bunches,
all upside down, worn out, done in.
But from the ground and old woods’ bony branches,
volition wakes. As if told to begin
doubling his ships, the General of the Seas
commands the Arsenal, which more than readily
works overnight, to tar the morning breeze
with galleys rowing, and with oars that batter
the daybreak, and with dawning flags that flutter,
seizing the great wind, radiant and deadly.
San Marco
Venedig
In diesem Innern, das wie ausgehöhlt
sich wölbt und wendet in den goldnen Smalten,
rundkantig, glatt, mit Köstlichkeit geölt,
ward dieses Staates Dunkelheit gehalten
und heimlich aufgehäuft, als Gleichgewicht
des Lichtes, das in allen seinen Dingen
sich so vermehrte, daß sie fast vergingen.
Und plötzlich zweifelst du: vergehn sie nicht?
und drängst zurück die harte Galerie,
die, wie ein Gang im Bergwerk, nah am Glanz
der Wölbung hängt; und du erkennst die heile
Helle des Ausblicks aber irgendwie
wehmütig messend ihre müde Weile
am nahen Überstehn des Viergespanns.
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