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From Rainier Maria Rilke.
Uncollected Poems
(New York Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996)

Now we wake with our memory
(Paris 1913)

Nun wachen wir mit den Erinnerungen
Und halten das Gesicht an das, was war;
Fluesternde Suesse, die uns einst durchdrungen,
Sitzt schweigend neben mit geloestem Haar

Now we wake with our memory
And turn our face to that which was;
Whispering sweetness which once engulfed us,
Now sits silently beside us with loosened hair.

Susanna Tschurtz 7/10/99