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“My Heart at Evening” by Georg Trakl 🇦🇹 (3 Feb 18873 Nov 1914)
Translated from the German by James Wright & Robert Bly
Toward evening you hear the cry of the bats.
Two black horses bound in the pasture,
The red maple rustles,
The walker along the road sees ahead the small tavern.
Nuts and young wine taste delicious,
Delicious: to stagger drunk into the darkening woods.
Village bells, painful to hear, echo through the black fir branches,
Dew forms on the face.