<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480375" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Last Supper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are assembled, astonished and disturbed<br>round him, who like a sage resolved his fate,<br>and now leaves those to whom he most belonged,<br>leaving and passing by them like a stranger.<br>The loneliness of old comes over him<br>which helped mature him for his deepest acts;<br>now will he once again walk through the olive grove,<br>and those who love him still will flee before his sight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To this last supper he has summoned them,<br>and (like a shot that scatters birds from trees)<br>their hands draw back from reaching for the loaves<br>upon his word: they fly across to him;<br>they flutter, frightened, round the supper table<br>searching for an escape. But he is present<br>everywhere like an all-pervading twilight-hour. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[On seeing Leonardo da Vinci's &quot;Last Supper&quot;, Milan 1904.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>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> <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=480375" data-title="The Last Supper de Rainer Maria Rilke" data-description="They are assembled, astonished and disturbed round him, who like a sage resolved his fate, and now leaves those to whom he most belonged, leaving and passing by them like a stranger. The loneliness of old comes over him which helped mature him for..."></div> </div> </div>

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