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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 21. I followed them to their crosses
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Romantiker-Bildnisse
Herrn John Höxter gewidmet
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Neu ist mir jeder Wind und jede Sonne
Und frischen Morgens Kühle zukunftsreich.
Doch niemand kommt, der zum geheimen Borne
Den Weg weist, den allein ich nie erreich.
So vielen folgt ich blind, und jetzt betroffen
Gewahre ich, daß ich ins Kreuze ging.
Nun gähnt die Nacht, die schwarzen Mäuler offen
Und ihre großen Augen glühen rings.
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Romantic Portraits
Mister John Höxter bestowed
3.
New seems every breeze to me and sun that mounts
The morning’s cool freshness with future-reach.
But none come who can show me those secret founts
Alone I’ll never be able to breach.
So, many have I trailed blind, and now stricken
I know I followed them to their crosses.
Thus yawns the night, whose open black maws sicken
And casts about big eyes in their glosses.
David Garshen Bomberg Sappers at Work (1918)
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