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“Melancholy” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by Jim Doss & Werner Schmitt
Bluish shadows. O you dark eyes,
That gaze long at me gliding past.
Guitar chords softly accompany autumn
In the garden, dissolved in brown lyes.
Nymph-like hands prepare
Death’s serious somberness, decayed lips
Suck at red breasts and in black lyes
The sun-youth’s moist curls glide.