<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mankind</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mankind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Face to face with the fire-abyss,<br>thundering hooves, the doomed brows of warriors,<br>across the blood-fog bootsteps echo, the iron death knells,<br>surrender, black in blue brains:<br>here Eve’s cloud, in pursuit, the passing over and bleeding coins.<br>Light breaks through the malignancy, his last meal.<br>A swelling silence dwells in bread and wine,<br>and the twelve are cleaved.<br>All night they wail in their dreams beneath the olive branches.<br>Saint Thomas plunges his hand into the heart of the wound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Translated by Eric Plattner</div><div style="margin:10px 0">…………………………………………………………………</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Menschheit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Menschheit vor Feuerschlünden aufgestellt,<br>Ein Trommelwirbel, dunkler Krieger Stirnen,<br>Schritte durch Blutnebel; schwarzes Eisen schellt,<br>Verzweiflung, Nacht in traurigen Gehirnen:<br>Hier Evas Schatten, Jagd und rotes Geld.<br>Gewölk, das Licht durchbricht, das Abendmahl.<br>Es wohnt in Brot und Wein ein sanftes Schweigen<br>Und jene sind versammelt zwölf an Zahl.<br>Nachts schrein im Schlaf sie unter Ölbaumzweigen;<br>Sankt Thomas taucht die Hand ins Wundenmal.</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=395741" data-title="Mankind de Georg Trakl" data-description="Mankind Face to face with the fire-abyss, thundering hooves, the doomed brows of warriors, across the blood-fog bootsteps echo, the iron death knells, surrender, black in blue brains: here Eve’s cloud, in pursuit, the passing over and bleeding ..."></div> </div> </div>

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