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The Standard-Bearer

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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The others feel that everything they wear

is coarse, impersonal wool, iron, and leather

(though now and then, an almost loving feather).

They're so alone, and lovelorn altogether,

while he bears his banner as he'd bear

a woman in some ceremonial dress.

The thick silk close behind him will caress

his hand sometimes, as fabric overflows.

His eyes alone can see this when they close:

a smile. He must not ever let her go.

And if some dazzling-breastplate-wearing foe

should come to clutch and wrest her from him? No!

He'd rip that ensign from its pole as if

wrenching her from her maidenhood, so he

could keep her folded in his tunic, safe.

Others call this renown and bravery.

Der letzte Graf von Brederode

entzieht sich türkischer Gefangenschaft

Sie folgten furchtbar; ihren bunten Tod

von ferne nach ihm werfend, während er

verloren floh, nichts weiter als: bedroht.

Die Ferne seiner Väter schien nicht mehr

für ihn zu gelten; denn um so zu fliehn,

genügt ein Tier vor Jägern. Bis der Fluß

aufrauschte nah und blitzend. Ein Entschluß

hob ihn samt seiner Not und machte ihn

wieder zum Knaben fürstlichen Geblütes.

Ein Lächeln adeliger Frauen goß

noch einmal Süßigkeit in sein verfrühtes

vollendetes Gesicht. Er zwang sein Roß,

groß wie sein Herz zu gehn, sein blutdurchglühtes;

es trug ihn in den Strom wie in sein Schloß.

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New Poems , pp. 113 - 114
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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