<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lying In Grass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is this everything now, the quick delusions of flowers,<br>And the down colors of the bright summer meadow,<br>The soft blue spread of heaven, the bees' song,<br>Is this everything only a god's<br>Groaning dream,<br>The cry of unconscious powers for deliverance?<br>The distant line of the mountain,<br>That beautifully and courageously rests in the blue,<br>Is this too only a convulsion,<br>Only the wild strain of fermenting nature,<br>Only grief, only agony, only meaningless fumbling,<br>Never resting, never a blessed movement?<br>No! Leave me alone, you impure dream<br>Of the world in suffering!<br>The dance of tiny insects cradles you in an evening radiance,<br>The bird's cry cradles you,<br>A breath of wind cools my forehead<br>With consolation.<br>Leave me alone, you unendurably old human grief!<br>Let it all be pain.<br>Let it all be suffering, let it be wretched-<br>But not this one sweet hour in the summer,<br>And not the fragrance of the red clover,<br>And not the deep tender pleasure<br>In my soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Translated by James Wright</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by Holt</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hermann+Hesse">Hermann Hesse</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=409999" data-title="Lying In Grass de Hermann Hesse" data-description="Is this everything now, the quick delusions of flowers, And the down colors of the bright summer meadow, The soft blue spread of heaven, the bees' song, Is this everything only a god's Groaning dream, The cry of unconscious powers for deliverance?..."></div> </div> </div>

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