<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395714" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Evening Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Evening Song</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At evening, when we walk on dark trails,<br>our bleached selves appear before us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thirsty<br>we drink from the pond’s white water,<br>the sweetness of our mournful childhood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weary, we rest beneath the elderberry<br>to behold the dawning gulls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spring clouds rise above the town’s dark thoughts—<br>mute, the monks’ nobler days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I took your tiny hands<br>your round eyes gently broke upon me.<br>This was long ago.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, when darker songs descend upon the soul,<br>you appear—a whiteness—in your friend’s autumn landscape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Translated by Eric Plattner</div><div style="margin:10px 0">…………………………………………………………………</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Abendlied</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am Abend, wenn wir auf dunklen Pfaden gehn,<br>Erscheinen unsere bleichen Gestalten vor uns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wenn uns dürstet,<br>Trinken wir die weißen Wasser des Teichs,<br>Die Süße unserer traurigen Kindheit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Erstorbene ruhen wir unterm Hollundergebüsch,<br>Schaun den grauen Möven zu.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Frühlingsgewölke steigen über die finstere Stadt,<br>Die der Mönche edlere Zeiten schweigt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Da ich deine schmalen Hände nahm<br>Schlugst du leise die runden Augen auf,<br>Dieses ist lange her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Doch wenn dunkler Wohllaut die Seele heimsucht,<br>Erscheinst du Weiße in des Freundes herbstlicher Landschaft.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Georg+Trakl">Georg Trakl</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395714" data-title="Evening Song de Georg Trakl" data-description="Evening Song At evening, when we walk on dark trails, our bleached selves appear before us. Thirsty we drink from the pond’s white water, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. Weary, we rest beneath the elderberry to behold the dawning gul..."></div> </div> </div>

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