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“The Tomb of a Young Girl” by Rainer Maria Rilke 🇦🇹 (4 Dec 187529 Dec 1926)
Translated from the German by Jessie Lemont
We still remember! The same as of yore
All that has happened once again must be.
As grows a lemon-tree upon the shore—
It was like that—your light small breasts you bore
And his blood’s current coursed like the wild sea.
That god—who was the wanderer the slim
Despoiler of fair women; he—the wise—
But sweet and glowing as your thoughts of him
Who cast a shadow over your young limb
While bending like your arched brows o’er your eyes.