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Buddha

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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As if he listens. Silence: something far …

We stop ourselves, no longer hearing. He

Is now a star, and star on giant star

stands all around him, but we cannot see.

Oh, he is all, and must we truly wait

till he sees us? What need could we fulfill?

And if we kowtowed to him, he would still

be deeper and more indolent than a cat.

What leaves us at his feet — prostrate; devout —

a million years around inside him turned.

He who forgets what we have learned,

and lives and knows what shuts us out.

L'Ange du Méridien

Chartres

Im Sturm, der um die starke Kathedrale

wie ein Verneiner stürzt der denkt und denkt,

fühlt man sich zärtlicher mit einem Male

von deinem Lächeln zu dir hingelenkt:

lächelnder Engel, fühlende Figur,

mit einem Mund, gemacht aus hundert Munden:

gewahrst du gar nicht, wie dir unsre Stunden

abgleiten von der vollen Sonnenuhr,

auf der des Tages ganze Zahl zugleich,

gleich wirklich, steht in tiefem Gleichgewichte,

als wären alle Stunden reif und reich.

Was weißt du, Steinerner, von unserm Sein?

und hältst du mit noch seligerm Gesichte

vielleicht die Tafel in die Nacht hinein?

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New Poems , pp. 39 - 40
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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