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“The Bride” by Rainer Maria Rilke 🇦🇹 (4 Dec 187529 Dec 1926)
Translated from the German by Jessie Lemont
Call me Beloved! Call aloud to me!
Thy bride her vigil at the window keeps;
The evening wanes to dusk the dimness creeps
Down empty alleys of the old plane-tree.
O! Let thy voice enfold me close about
Or from this dark house lonely and remote
Through deep blue gardens where gray shadows float
I will pour forth my soul with hands stretched out …