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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 7. Now the sound can die

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Nun stirbt ein Klang

Am gläsernen Boden vergleitend.

Oh Schatten lange und bang,

Am Rand der Erde schreitend,

 

Vergiß mich hinab,

Es jagt mit den Wolken den reinen

Sturmhirten mich mit dem Stab,

Bei verstoßnen Engeln zu weinen. [i]

 

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Now the sound can die,

Skitt'ring over a silent glass floor.

O fearless shadows on high,

Striding to the edge of Earth once more,

 

Casting me downward,

It chases pure with clouds trajected

Like crooked staffs from a storm-shepherd,

To cull from the angels rejected.

 

 

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A still from F. W. Murnau's 1926 film Faust

 

 

 

 

 


[i] [Nun stirbt ein Klang] (“Now the sound can die”)

Letter to Erwin Loewenson, March 3rd, 1912

 

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