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The Grown-Up

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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All this stood on her and was all creation;

stood on her with its grace or fearful pall,

the way trees stand up, growing straight and tall,

God's-ark-like, imageless, but image all,

as solemnly imposed as on some nation.

Accepting it, she bore it over her —

the flying and the fleeing and far-gone;

the inconceivable; the not-yet-known —

serenely as a water carrier

might bear her brimming jar, till in mid-play —

transfiguring, preparing for the new —

the first white veil came down like floating dew

and fell upon her upturned face half-way

opaque, there everlastingly to lie.

And somehow, after, all her questions drew

one vague and indeterminate reply:

“In you; in you, who were a child; in you.”

Tanagra

Ein wenig gebrannter Erde,

wie von großer Sonne gebrannt.

Als wäre die Gebärde

einer Mädchenhand

auf einmal nicht mehr vergangen;

ohne nach etwas zu langen,

zu keinem Dinge hin

aus ihrem Gefühle führend,

nur an sich selber rührend

wie eine Hand ans Kinn.

Wir heben und wir drehen

eine und eine Figur;

wir können fast verstehen

weshalb sie nicht vergehen, —

aber wir sollen nur

tiefer und wunderbarer

hängen an dem was war

und lächeln: ein wenig klarer

vielleicht als vor einem Jahr.

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New Poems , pp. 85 - 86
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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