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Rainer Maria Rilke - World Was In The Face Of The Beloved
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World was in the face of the beloved—,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.

Why didn`t I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn`t I drink
world, so near that I couldn`t almost taste it?

Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.


Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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