from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
And at the end he was not able to
refuse her: she would sing in joyous tones
that celebrated her devoted love
for Him. Below the cross, in vestments of
her pain, she sank; grief was a robe shot through
entirely with love's most precious stones.
But when she reached the grave though, to anoint
Him, down her face the tears began to flow,
for He was risen (and on her account!)
so He might bless her with His veto: “No.”
All hollowed out, she failed to see, until
at last, now strengthened by His dying, He
forbade the consolation of that oil —
her roiling sorrow and anxiety —
so He might form from her a loving soul
who'd stop enticing lovers to her bed.
For though love's violent storms once rapt her whole
existence, she's exceeded all He's said.
Magnifikat
Sie kam den Hang herauf, schon schwer, fast ohne
an Trost zu glauben, Hoffnung oder Rat;
doch da die hohe tragende Matrone
ihr ernst und stolz entgegentrat
und alles wußte ohne ihr Vertrauen,
da war sie plötzlich an ihr ausgeruht;
vorsichtig hielten sich die vollen Frauen,
bis daß die junge sprach: Mir ist zumut,
als wär ich, Liebe, von nun an für immer.
Gott schüttet in der Reichen Eitelkeit
fast ohne hinzusehen ihren Schimmer;
doch sorgsam sucht er sich ein Frauenzimmer
und füllt sie an mit seiner fernsten Zeit.
Daß er mich fand. Bedenk nur; und Befehle
um meinetwillen gab von Stern zu Stern —.
Verherrliche und hebe, meine Seele,
so hoch du kannst: den Herrn.
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