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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 27. sweet curlicues

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Romantiker-Bildnisse

Herrn John Höxter gewidmet

 

9.

Ein Tönen wehte über den verschloßnen

Bergzug, der dunkel unser Sehnen grenzt;

Luftspiegelung flog heran von der verfloßnen

Zeiträume altem Zauberprunk beglänzt.

 

Wie schwer ich lieg! Wild stemmt Sich meine Hand

Dem Boden auf . . . nur meine Schulter steigt . . .

Das Bild ist weg. Kahl dehnt Sich graues Land,

Und süßes Locken aus dem Süden schweigt. [1]

 

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Romantic Portraits

Mister John Höxter bestowed

 

9.

When a waltz drifted through the closed mountain range

Darkly edging the heights our desires climb,

A lost mirage wafted up from someplace strange,

Gleaming the magic of a misplaced time.

 

Heavy I feel where I lie. My wild hand

Pushes on the ground . . . shoulder raised compliant . . .

But the image fades. Bare stretches gray land,

And sweet curlicues from the South, quiet.

 

 

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Franz von Stuck Faun with Syrinx (1914)

 

 

 

 

 

[1] Romantiker-Bildnisse ("Romantic Portraits”)

This collection of poems is appended with the note: Berlin. Frühiahr 1911 (“Berlin, early part of the year 1911”). The aus dem Süden reference in the concluding line to No. 9 apparently refers to very well-known Johann Strauss II waltz “Rosen aus dem Süden.”

 

https://archive.org/details/dieschriftendesn0000unse/page/222/mode/2up

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJeElzKzpvA

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1 hour ago, AC Benus said:

Thank you, Parker. I should point out that to the German-speaking mind, the South conjures up images of the warm skies (and beautiful men ;) ) of Italy! 

 

1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

That also explains (in my own speculative imagination) the curlicues of the Italian Baroque. 

Thanks for the follow-on dialogue, which always brings further enlightenment :) 

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