Thursday, October 11, 2018

Song [The] XIIIth (Continued) pg. 37



I watched and sorrows danced in my head
A tear inflamed the wine glass
            And a little tear of longing slipped down from [my] eye
            The tear inflamed the wine glass
            So I thought to myself that I would drink to your health
            [And] you maybe at that moment would sigh[1]
                                                                        The End
Song Exile to Siberia[2]
The wind blew sorrowfully through the empty steppe
And drove a snowy drift into the clouds
There a snowy dust cloud tore and shook
Like torrential dust from a hurricane
            Amidst the steppe’s windstorms and billows
            The intricate trail of a black prison-carriage
            And a sorrowful bell sounds in the distance
            Like the last sign of a dead person
In the prison-carriage one can see the figure of a young man
Sorrowful but proud it stood to be seen
On [his] face one could see the trace of ruddiness
But even this would shortly have to perish




[1] Literally “sighed”
[2] In a different handwriting

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