Autumn Day
Lord: it is time. The huge
summer has gone by.
Now overlap the sundials with your shadows,
and on the meadows let the wind go free.
Now overlap the sundials with your shadows,
and on the meadows let the wind go free.
Command the fruits to swell
on tree and vine;
grant them a few more warm transparent days,
urge them on to fulfillment then, and press
the final sweetness into the heavy wine.
grant them a few more warm transparent days,
urge them on to fulfillment then, and press
the final sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now,
will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander along the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander along the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
~
(Ahead of All Parting,
edited and translated by Steven Mitchell)
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