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The Bed

from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Summary

Let them believe that any woe we're bound

up in can be shed there in privacy.

No theater like this one can be found:

lift up the curtain — high — and there will be,

before the Chorus of the Night — which start

to voice their broadly endless song — that Hour

when lovers who are lying in her power

will rail at her and tear her dress apart.

They'll do it for that other Hour's sake

that bridles in the background, writhing, twisting —

one those she holds can neither still nor slake.

The Hour of Lovers bends toward that resisting

other Hour that at least

has what she found once in her lover, yet

more menacing, imbued with greater threat,

committed (and removed) as in some beast.

Der Fremde

Ohne Sorgfalt, was die Nächsten dächten,

die er müde nichtmehr fragen hieß,

ging er wieder fort; verlor, verließ —.

Denn er hing an solchen Reisenächten

anders als an jeder Liebesnacht.

Wunderbare hatte er durchwacht,

die mit starken Sternen überzogen

enge Fernen auseinanderbogen

und sich wandelten wie eine Schlacht;

andre, die mit in den Mond gestreuten

Dörfern, wie mit hingehaltnen Beuten,

sich ergaben, oder durch geschonte

Parke graue Edelsitze zeigten,

die er gerne in dem hingeneigten

Haupte einen Augenblick bewohnte,

tiefer wissend, daß man nirgends bleibt;

und schon sah er bei dem nächsten Biegen

wieder Wege, Brücken, Länder liegen

bis an Städte, die man übertreibt.

Und dies alles immer unbegehrend

hinzulassen, schien ihm mehr als seines

Lebens Lust, Besitz und Ruhm.

Doch auf fremden Plätzen war ihm eines

täglich ausgetretnen Brunnensteines

Mulde manchmal wie ein Eigentum.

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New Poems , pp. 335 - 336
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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