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“The Tomb of a Young Girl” by Rainer Maria Rilke 🇦🇹 (4 Dec 1875 – 29 Dec 1926)
Translated from the German by Jessie Lemont
We still remember! The same as of yore
All that has happened once again must be.
As grows a lemon-tree upon the shore—
It was like that—your light small breasts you bore
And his blood’s current coursed like the wild sea.
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That god—who was the wanderer the slim
Despoiler of fair women; he—the wise—
But sweet and glowing as your thoughts of him
Who cast a shadow over your young limb
While bending like your arched brows o’er your eyes.