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“Blessing of Women” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by Jim Doss & Werner Schmitt
Walking among your women
And you often smile uneasily:
Anxious days have come.
The poppy withers white along the fence.
Like your belly so beautifully swollen
Wine ripens golden on the hill.
Far away the pond’s mirror glimmers
And the scythe rattles in the field.
Dew rolls through the bushes,
The leaves flow down red.
To greet his beloved lady
A moor approaches you brown and rough.