from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Borgeby-Gård
Come just that moment when the sun has set,
and see the grass turn evening green. As though
we'd been a long time at this (and were yet),
absorbing, saving it inside us — so
it seems — from feeling and from memory,
from half-forgotten joy, new hope, and wonder
still mixed up with our inner darkness, we
could scatter it in thought before us, under
those trees like Durer's, bearing on the bough
a hundred days of work — that labor's load —
in heavy fruit that's ready to explode,
now waiting, full of patience, testing how
that which surpasses every measure, still
must be a handsel offered up when one
has grown, all through a long life finally done,
till silence is the single act of will.
Mohammeds Berufung
Da aber als in sein Versteck der Hohe,
sofort Erkennbare: der Engel, trat
aufrecht, der lautere und lichterlohe:
da tat er allen Anspruch ab und bat
bleiben zu dürfen der von seinen Reisen
innen verwirrte Kaufmann, der er war;
er hatte nie gelesen — und nun gar
ein solches Wort, zu viel für einen Weisen.
Der Engel aber, herrisch, wies und wies
ihm, was geschrieben stand auf seinem Blatte,
und gab nicht nach und wollte wieder: Lies.
Da las er: so, daß sich der Engel bog.
Und war schon einer, der gelesen hatte
und konnte und gehorchte und vollzog.
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