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“Descent and Defeat” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 1887 – 3 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by James Wright & Robert Bly
Over the white fishpond
The wild birds have blown away.
An icy wind drifts from our stars at evening.
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Over our graves
The broken forehead of the night is bending.
Under the oaks we veer in a silver skiff.
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The white walls of the city are always giving off sound.
Under arching thorns
O my brother blind minute-hands we are climbing toward midnight.