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The Works of Stefan George Quotes
The Works of Stefan George
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The Works of Stefan George Quotes
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“THE FIELDS
TO CARL AUGUST KLEIN
Salient curve of the silver sky
Arches the endless expanse of your somnolent fields.
Can you unriddle the fate which their furrows conceal,
All that we two for years passed by?
Under the willows dripping with new
Catkins, the children are listening entranced to the sound
Of a flute, buoyant and careless they caper and bound
Into a dusk of vermilion and blue.
Shining baubles weary the crone, and her gaze
Turns to the gentler resplendence of Thuja trees,
Only the care she bestows upon graves gives her ease,
Dimly she croons of a region of rays.
And those who slipped from the snares of delight,
But who, like us, on terrestrial wishes are fed —
Brooding friend, do you seek them in symbols and dread
Our adventure into night?”
― The Works of Stefan George
TO CARL AUGUST KLEIN
Salient curve of the silver sky
Arches the endless expanse of your somnolent fields.
Can you unriddle the fate which their furrows conceal,
All that we two for years passed by?
Under the willows dripping with new
Catkins, the children are listening entranced to the sound
Of a flute, buoyant and careless they caper and bound
Into a dusk of vermilion and blue.
Shining baubles weary the crone, and her gaze
Turns to the gentler resplendence of Thuja trees,
Only the care she bestows upon graves gives her ease,
Dimly she croons of a region of rays.
And those who slipped from the snares of delight,
But who, like us, on terrestrial wishes are fed —
Brooding friend, do you seek them in symbols and dread
Our adventure into night?”
― The Works of Stefan George
