<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395793" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Three Dreams</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think, I dreamed of falling leaves,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of wide forests and dark lakes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of sad words' echo -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However, I could not understand their meaning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think, I dreamed of falling stars,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the weeping entreaty of pale eyes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of a smile's echo -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However, I could not understand its meaning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like falling leaves, like falling stars,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I saw myself eternally coming and going,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dream's immortal echo -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">However, I could not understand its meaning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my soul's dark mirror</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are pictures of never-seen seas,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of abandoned, tragic imaginary lands,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dissolving into the blue, the thereabouts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My soul bore blood-purple skies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shone through by gigantic, crackling suns,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And strangely animated, shimmering gardens,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That steamed with muggy, deadly delights.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my soul's dark fountain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Created pictures of immense nights,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moved by nameless cantos</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And breaths of eternal powers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My soul shudders memory-dark,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if it found itself in everything -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In unfathomable seas and nights,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And deep cantos, without beginning and end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw many towns as if robbed by flame</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the times accumulated atrocity after atrocity,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And saw a lot of people putrefy to dust,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And everything float into oblivion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the gods fall to the night,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The holiest harps powerlessly smashed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And kindled anew from putrefaction,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new life swelling to the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swelling to the day and again passing,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eternally identical tragedy,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That thus we play without understanding,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And its insanity's nightly torture</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wreathes the soft glory of beauty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a smiling universe of thorns.</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=395793" data-title="Three Dreams de Georg Trakl" data-description="I I think, I dreamed of falling leaves, Of wide forests and dark lakes, Of sad words' echo - However, I could not understand their meaning. I think, I dreamed of falling stars, Of the weeping entreaty of pale eyes, Of a smile's echo - H..."></div> </div> </div>

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