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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480353" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Hearing Of A Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We lack all knowledge of this parting. Death<br>does not deal with us. We have no reason<br>to show death admiration, love or hate;<br>his mask of feigned tragic lament gives us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a false impression. The world's stage is still<br>filled with roles which we play. While we worry<br>that our performances may not please, <br>death also performs, although to no applause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as you left us, there broke upon this stage<br>a glimpse of reality, shown through the slight<br>opening through which you dissapeared: green,<br>evergreen, bathed in sunlight, actual woods.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We keep on playiing, still anxious, our difficult roles<br>declaiming, accompanied by matching gestures<br>as required. But your presence so suddenly <br>removed from our midst and from our play, at times</div><div style="margin:10px 0">overcomes us like a sense of that other<br>reality: yours, that we are so overwhelmed<br>and play our actual lives instead of the performance,<br>forgetting altogehter the applause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rainer+Maria+Rilke">Rainer Maria Rilke</a><div class=q>
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