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Don Juan's Election

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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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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New Poems , pp. 313 - 314
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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