Leg mir aufs Haar Die Hand; schwer ist mein Haupt, Was meine Jugend war, Hast du geraubt. Unwiederbringlich ist dahin Der Jugend Glanz, der Freude Born, Der mir so unerschöpflich golden schien, Und überblieben Weh und Zorn Und Nächte, Nächte ohne End, In denen wild und fieberheiß Der alten Liebeslüste Kreis Mein waches Träumen wund durchrennt. Nur noch in Stunden seltner Rast Tritt manchmal meine Jugend her Zu mir, ein scheuer, blasser Gast, Und stöhnt, und macht das Herz mir schwer ... Leg mir aufs Haar Die Hand; schwer ist mein Haupt. Was meine Jugend war, Hast du geraubt.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 92-93.
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- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1900, appears in Meiner Liebe, no. 2 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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