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Night Ray

Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one:to her I send the coffin of lightest wood.

Waves billow round it as round the bed of our dream in Rome;it wears a white wig as I do and speaks hoarsely:it talks as I do when I grant admittance to hearts.

It knows a French song about love,

I sang it in autumnwhen I stopped as a tourist in Lateland and wrote my letters      to morning.

A fine boat is that coffin carved in the coppice of feelings.

I too drift in it downbloodstream, younger still than your eye.

Now you are young as a bird dropped dead in March snow,now it comes to you, sings you its love song from France.

You are light: you will sleep through my spring till it's over.

I am lighter:in front of strangers I sing.

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Paul Celan

Paul Celan (/ˈsɛlæn/;[1] German: [ˈtseːlaːn]; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He w…

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