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How my body blooms from every veinmore fragrantly, since you appeared to me;look,
I walk slimmer now and straighter,and all you do is wait-:who are you then?
Look:
I feel how I'm moving away,how I'm shedding my old life, leaf by leaf.
Only your smile spreads like sheer starsover you and, soon now, over me.
Whatever shines through my childhood yearsstill nameless and gleaming like water,
I will name after you at the altar,which is blazing brightly from your hairand braided gently with your breasts.
Translated by Edward Snow
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recogn
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