from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Venice
In this interior it scooped and coiled
(space turning in the golden tiles, all curved,
round-cornered, smooth, and with perfection, oiled),
the darkness of this State — held up, preserved —
was piled in secret as a countermass
to light, which had, in all its things, so grown
that they had nearly died away, unknown.
Then suddenly, you wonder: don't they pass
Away? You push it back, the gallery —
that miner's catwalk near the dome's bright gleam —
and recognize the light, still whole and sound
and splendid to the sight. But though you see,
you wistfully compare the tedium found
there with that long-enduring chariot team.
Ein Doge
Fremde Gesandte sahen, wie sie geizten
mit ihm und allem was er tat;
während sie ihn zu seiner Größe reizten,
umstellten sie das goldene Dogat
mit Spähern und Beschränkern immer mehr,
bange, daß nicht die Macht sie überfällt,
die sie in ihm (so wie man Löwen hält)
vorsichtig nährten. Aber er,
im Schutze seiner halbverhängten Sinne,
ward dessen nicht gewahr und hielt nicht inne,
größer zu werden. Was die Signorie
in seinem Innern zu bezwingen glaubte,
bezwang er selbst. In seinem greisen Haupte
war es besiegt. Sein Antlitz zeigte wie.
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