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The Ultimate Vehicle of Earthly Bliss - 17. We must see ourselves in naked beauty
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Sonett II.
Die purpurbraunen Buchen beugten
Sich schaukelnd durch das Abendwehn,
Und zu uns auf stieg aus dem feuchten
Waldgrund, wo die Erlen stehn
Und seltsam weiße Nebel scheuchten
Ein Wunsch wie Tod und Untergehn,
Plötzlich entbrannt gleich jähem Fackelleuchten:
Wir müssen uns in nackter Schönheit sehn. –
Da hast du meine Hand genommen,
Die Berge waren ein Rausch von Rot,
Über den Himmel ist Feuer geschwommen,
Mein Herz entbrannte in glühender Rot –
Und ist meine Sehnsucht zu deiner gekommen
Hinter den Bergen wußt ich den Tod.
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Sonnet II.
As the crimson-brown beeches swayed aloft,
Bowing bent to the evening breeze,
The damp forest floor rose up to us
From where the tall alders stand
And with it a strange white mist ushered
A wish like death and subsidence,
But a rush suddenly kindled like torching light:
We must see ourselves in naked beauty. –
So you took my hand, and the mountains
Became a moving torrent of red,
The sky then swam amid currents of fire,
My heart flared up red-hot and glimmering –
For all of my longing reached out to embrace yours
Beyond the peaks where I once knew death.
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