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“Though the world keeps changing its form …” by Rainer Maria Rilke 🇦🇹 (4 Dec 1875 – 29 Dec 1926)
Translated from the German by Stephen Mitchell
Though the world keeps changing its form
as fast as a cloud, still
what is accomplished falls home
to the Primeval.
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Over the change and the passing,
larger and freer,
soars your eternal song,
god with the lyre.
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Never has grief been possesed,
never has love been learned,
and what removes us in death
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is not revealed.
Only the song through the land
hallows and heals.