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“Night Song” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 1887 – 3 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by Jim Doss & Werner Schmitt
The breath of the unmoved. An animal face
Grows stiff in blueness, its holiness.
Enormous is the silence in stone;
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The mask of a nocturnal bird. The soft triad
Fades into one sound. Elai! your countenance
Bends speechless over bluish waters.
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O! you still mirrors of truth.
On the ivory temple of the lonely one
The reflection of fallen angels appears.