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Resurrection

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Summary

Hearing that sound that quakes,

the Count sees light break through: it's Doom.

He shakes his thirteen sons, and wakes

each from his earthly tomb.

He greets his two wives from afar

with gracious courtesy.

How filled with faith all are

to meet Eternity.

But they await the moment when

young Erich (laid to rest at seven)

and (at thirteen, in 1610,

her mortal body given

its grave in Flanders clay)

Ulrike-Dorothee

will lead today to heaven.

Der Fahnenträger

Die Andern fühlen alles an sich rauh

und ohne Anteil: Eisen, Zeug und Leder.

Zwar manchmal schmeichelt eine weiche Feder,

doch sehr allein und lieb-los ist ein jeder;

er aber trägt — als trüg er eine Frau —

die Fahne in dem feierlichen Kleide.

Dicht hinter ihm geht ihre schwere Seide,

die manchmal über seine Hände fließt.

Er kann allein, wenn er die Augen schließt,

ein Lächeln sehn: er darf sie nicht verlassen. —

Und wenn es kommt in blitzenden Kürassen

und nach ihr greift und ringt und will sie fassen —:

dann darf er sie abreißen von dem Stocke

als riß er sie aus ihrem Mädchentum,

um sie zu halten unterm Waffenrocke.

Und für die Andern ist das Mut und Ruhm.

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New Poems , pp. 111 - 112
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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