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“Descent and Defeat” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 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.
Over our graves
The broken forehead of the night is bending.
Under the oaks we veer in a silver skiff.
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.