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“Mary Virgin” by Rainer Maria Rilke 🇦🇹 (4 Dec 187529 Dec 1926)
Translated from the German by Jessie Lemont
How came how came from out thy night
Mary so much light
And so much gloom:
Who was thy bridegroom?
Thou callest thou callest and thou hast forgot
That thou the same art not
Who came to me
In thy Virginity.
I am still so blossoming so young.
How shall I go on tiptoe
From childhood to Annunciation
Through the dim twilight
Into thy Garden.