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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 1. The Prisoners
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Die Gefangenen
Uns blieb das enge Zimmer nicht erspart;
Drin wir wie Tiere trotten auf und ab.
– Die Zeit fällt langsam in ihr Abgrund-Grab . . .
Der Teppich schweigt und jene Diele knarrt.
Weh! Schon fließt über schrill im Abendrot
Der Horizont! – fern hinterm Fensterglas . . .
Da schäumt noch einmal wütend unser Haß.
Dann wirft er uns zu Schatten, toll und tot. [i]
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The Prisoners
We weren’t deprived of a single small cell;
Pent in there, we paced like beasts all around.
– Time into its hell-grave gets slowly ground . . .
The rug’s silent, and that floorboard creaks well.
Oh! The sunset flows so soon harshly red
On the horizon! – the window’s glass plate . . .
Where once more furiously foams our hate.
Then it casts us to shadows, raged and dead.
Käthe Kollwitz The Prisoners (1908)
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