Kaspar Hausers Song
He truly loved the purple sun, descending from the hills,
The ways through the woods, the singing
And the joys of green.
Sombre was his dwelling in the shadows of the
And his face undefiled.
God, a tender flame, spoke to his heart:
Oh son of man!
Silently his step turned to the city in the evening;
A mysterious complaint fell from his lips:“I shall become a horseman.”But bush and beast did follow his
To the pale people’s house and garden at dusk,
And his murderer sought after him.
Spring and summer and – oh so beautiful – the
Of the righteous.
His silent
Passed by the dark rooms of the dreamers.
At night he and his star dwelled alone.
He saw the snow fall on bare
And in the murky doorway the assassin’s shadow.
Silvern sank the unborne’s head.
Georg Trakl
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Psalm
It is a light, that the wind has extinguished It is a pub on the heath, that a drunk departs in the afternoon It is a vineyard, charred and black with holes full of spiders It is a space, that they have white-limed with milk
Delirium
The black snow runs down from the rooftops; A red finger dips into your brow; Blue snow flakes sink into the empty room, They are a lovers’ dying mirrors
Helian
In the spirit’s solitary It is lovely to walk in the Along the yellow walls of summer Quietly whisper the steps in the grass; yet always
Lament
Sleep and death, the dusky Around this head swoop all night long; Eternity’s icy Would swallow the golden