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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 13. moon-gold apples
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Am Morgan –
Nach der Nacht
Warum sind Nächte schöner, wo die Nähe
Blaugeäderter schmaler Finger uns droht?
Denn schon geringer worden ist jenes Rot,
Das der Morgen auf der Wolken Wange lockt.
Die Formen eines Körpers abzutasten
Wünscht unser Sinn, der unserm Willen trotzt.
Wie seid ihr weiten Straßen unbewegt,
Ihr maßlos fernen . . . .
Denn voller Früchte strotzt
Noch über unserm Haupt
Mondgoldner Äpfel und Birnen
Dichtes Gezweige
Köstlich verschlungener Nacht.
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In Morning –
After the Night
Why are nights more beautiful when the nearness
Of gracile, blue-veined fingers can threaten us?
Regard how the red has already faded,
Luring the lures of morning on cloudy cheeks.
And our senses, which might defy will-power,
Desire the touch of a nearby body's form.
How are you wide avenues so unmoved,
You measureless lengths . . . .
For branches full of fruit,
Moon-gold apples and pears,
Brim in splendor over our heads,
Whose thick offerings
Deliciously consume the night.
William Blake The Blighted Wheat (1821)
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