from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Who would have guessed this pink? And who knew, too,
it gathered in these umbels that it filled?
Just as things underlying gold un-gild,
these pale, as if from all that they've been through.
To think that for such pink they charge no fee!
Does it stay theirs, still smiling in the sun?
Do angels take it in there, tenderly,
when like perfume, its generous life is done?
Perhaps they yield it up so it will never
know how it feels when something fades away?
Below this pink, green hears it have its say,
and fades now, knowing everything forever.
Das Wappen
Wie ein Spiegel, der, von ferne tragend,
lautlos in sich aufnahm, ist der Schild;
offen einstens, dann zusammenschlagend
über einem Spiegelbild
jener Wesen, die in des Geschlechts
Weiten wohnen, nicht mehr zu bestreiten,
seiner Dinge, seiner Wirklichkeiten
(rechte links und linke rechts),
die er eingesteht und sagt und zeigt.
Drauf, mit Ruhm und Dunkel ausgeschlagen,
ruht der Spangenhelm, verkürzt,
den das Flügelkleinod übersteigt,
wahrend seine Decke, wie mit Klagen,
reich und aufgeregt herniederstürzt.
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