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Rainer Maria Rilke - The Sonnets To Orpheus: X
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You who are close to my heart always,
I welcome you, ancient coffins of stone,
which the cheerful water of Roman days
still flows through, like a wandering song.

Or those other ones that are open wide
like the eyes of a happily waking shepard
-with silence and bee-suck nettle inside,
from which ecstatic butterflies flittered;

everything that has been wrestled from doubt
I welcome-the mouths that burst open after
long knowledge of what it is to be mute.

Do we know this, my friends, or don`t we know this?
Both are formed by the hesitant hour
in the deep calm of the human face.


Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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