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Adam

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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Amazed, he stands beside the window-rose,

there at the steep ascent of Notre-Dame,

as though apotheosis startled him —

a frightening and sudden thing that grows,

then places him above these kings — these many

kings! Towering there, he's glad his simple willing

has made for such endurance; as a tilling

gardener, he began, not knowing any

way out of Eden's full and finished garden

to the new earth. No matter what he'd try,

God would not grant his plea (God meant to harden

His mind and not give in). Again, again,

He threatened Adam: someday he would die.

But he kept on: “She will give birth to men.”

Eva

Einfach steht sie an der Kathedrale

großem Aufstieg, nah der Fensterrose,

mit dem Apfel in der Apfelpose,

schuldlos-schuldig ein für alle Male

an dem Wachsenden, das sie gebar,

seit sie aus dem Kreis der Ewigkeiten

liebend fortging, um sich durchzustreiten

durch die Erde, wie ein junges Jahr.

Ach, sie hätte gern in jenem Land

noch ein wenig weilen mögen, achtend

auf der Tiere Eintracht und Verstand.

Doch da sie den Mann entschlossen fand,

ging sie mit ihm, nach dem Tode trachtend,

und sie hatte Gott noch kaum gekannt.

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New Poems , pp. 235 - 236
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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