from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
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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