<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395779" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dead Church</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On dark benches they sit packed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And lift extinguished looks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the cross. The lights gleam as if covered,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cloudy and as if covered the head of wounds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The incense rises from a golden vessel</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the height, dying songs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exhale, and as if afflicted the room dusks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Uncertainly and sweet. The priest strides</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the altar; but, he practices the pious rites</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With tired spirit - a miserable player</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before bad prayers with numb hearts,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In soulless play with bread and wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bell sounds! The lights flicker more cloudily -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And paler, as if covered the head of wounds!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The organ hisses! In dead hearts memory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">shudders on! A bleeding countenance of pain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wraps itself in darkness and the despair</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stares after him in the emptiness from many eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one who sounded like all voices,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sobs - meanwhile the horror grew in the room,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The death-horror grew: Have mercy on us -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord!</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=395779" data-title="The Dead Church de Georg Trakl" data-description="On dark benches they sit packed And lift extinguished looks To the cross. The lights gleam as if covered, And cloudy and as if covered the head of wounds. The incense rises from a golden vessel To the height, dying songs Exhale, and as if af..."></div> </div> </div>

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