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Who if I cried out would hear me among the angels'	A
hierarchies and even if one of them suddenly	B
pressed me against his heart I would perish	C
in the embrace of his stronger existence	D
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror	E
which we are barely able to endure and are awed	F
because it serenely disdains to annihilate us	G
Each single angel is terrifying	H
And so I force myself swallow and hold back	I
the surging call of my dark sobbing	H
Oh to whom can we turn for help	J
Not angels not humans	K
and even the knowing animals are aware that we feel	L
little secure and at home in our interpreted world	M
There remains perhaps some tree on a hillside	N
daily for us to see yesterday's street remains for us	G
stayed moved in with us and showed no signs of leaving	H
Oh and the night the night when the wind	O
full of cosmic space invades our frightened faces	P
Whom would it not remain for that longed after	E
gently disenchanting night painfully there for the	Q
solitary heart to achieve Is it easier for lovers	R
Don't you know yet Fling out of your arms the	Q
emptiness into the spaces we breath perhaps the birds	S
will feel the expanded air in their more ferven flight	T
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Yes the springtime were in need of you Often a star	U
waited for you to espy it and sense its light	T
A wave rolled toward you out of the distant past	V
or as you walked below an open window	W
a violin gave itself to your hearing	H
All this was trust But could you manage it	X
Were you not always distraught by expectation	Y
as if all this were announcing the arrival	Z
of a beloved Where would you find a place	A2
to hide her with all your great strange thoughts	B2
coming and going and often staying for the night	T
When longing overcomes you sing of women in love	C2
for their famous passion is far from immortal enough	D2
Those whom you almost envy the abandoned and	E2
desolate ones whom you found so much more loving	H
than those gratified Begin ever new again	F2
the praise you cannot attain remember	E
the hero lives on and survives even his downfall	G2
was for him only a pretext for achieving	H
his final birth But nature exhausted takes lovers	R
back into itself as if such creative forces could never be	B
achieved a second time	H2
Have you thought of Gaspara Stampa sufficiently	B
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that any girl abandoned by her lover may feel	L
from that far intenser example of loving	H
Ah might I become like her Should not their oldest	I2
sufferings finally become more fruitful for us	G
Is it not time that lovingly we freed ourselves	J2
from the beloved and quivering endured	K2
as the arrow endures the bow string's tension	Y
and in this tense release becomes more than itself	L2
For staying is nowhere	M2
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Voices voices Listen my heart as only saints	N2
have listened until the gigantic call lifted them	O2
clear off the ground Yet they went on impossibly	B
kneeling completely unawares so intense was	P2
their listening Not that you could endure	Q2
the voice of God far from it But listen	Y
to the voice of the wind and the ceaseless message	R2
that forms itself out of silence They sweep	S2
toward you now from those who died young	T2
Whenever they entered a church in Rome or Naples	A
did not their fate quietly speak to you as recently	B
as the tablet did in Santa Maria Formosa	Q
What do they want of me to quietly remove	U2
the appearance of suffered injustice that	V2
at times hinders a little their spirits from	W2
freely proceeding onward	X2
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Of course it is strange to inhabit the earth no longer	E
to no longer use skills on had barely time to acquire	E
not to observe roses and other things that promised	I2
so much in terms of a human future no longer	E
to be what one was in infinitely anxious hands	Y2
to even discard one's own name as easily as a child	Z2
abandons a broken toy	A3
Strange not to desire to continue wishing one's wishes	B3
Strange to notice all that was related fluttering	H
so loosely in space And being dead is hard work	C3
and full of retrieving before one can gradually feel a	Q
trace of eternity Yes but the liviing make	D3
the mistake of drawing too sharp a distinction	Y
Angels they say are often unable to distinguish	C
between moving among the living or the dead	E3
The eternal torrent whirls all ages along with it	X
through both realms forever and their voices are lost in	F3
its thunderous roar	G3
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In the end the early departed have no longer	E
need of us One is gently weaned from things	H3
of this world as a child outgrows the need	I3
of its mother's breast But we who have need	I3
of those great mysteries we for whom grief is	B3
so often the source of spiritual growth	J3
could we exist without them	O2
Is the legend vain that tells of music's beginning	H
in the midst of the mourning for Linos	B3
the daring first sounds of song piercing	H
the barren numbness and how in that stunned space	B3
an almost godlike youth suddenly left forever	E
and the emptiness felt for the first time	H2
those harmonious vibrations which now enrapture	E
and comfort and help us	B3

Rainer Maria Rilke

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