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Du Sommerabend! Heilig, goldnes Licht! In sanftem Glühen steht die Flur entzündet. Kein Laut, der dieses Friedens Lauschen bricht, in ein Gefühl ist alles hingemündet. Auch meine Seele sehnt sich nach der Nacht und nach des Dunkels taugeperltem Steigen und will nur lauschen, wie in Rosenpracht die dunklen Himmelsstunden leuchtend schweigen.
Confirmed with Wilhelm Weigand, In der Frühe, Leipzig und Berlin: Georg Heinrich Meyer Heimatverlag, 1901, page 27. Appears in Im Übergang.
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Summer evening! Holy, golden light! In this gentle glow, the meadow is enkindled. No sound interrupts this idyllic peace, In a sense, everything has dissipated. My soul also longs for the night And for the dew-pearled advance of the darkness And I want purely to listen, in this rosy splendor, To the radiant stillness of the dark, heavenly hours.
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