Anima
Language: German (Deutsch)
Am Markte lag ein tot gestürztes Kind,
Im blauen Kleid zum Bündel still verbogen.
Der Vogel lockte es, der in den Wind
Am Morgenfenster war hinaufgeflogen.
Die Mutter kam und nahm es in den Schoß.
Sie weinte nicht, die Fromme konnte beten.
Wie Sonntag war der Platz, erhellt und groß.
Die hohe Tröstung war hineingetreten.
O Vögel flieget, flieget auf im Wind!
Und Fensterspiel und himmelblaues Kind.
Confirmed with Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Gesicht und Antlitz: Neue Gedichte, Gotha: Leopold Klotz Verlag, 1928, page 78.
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Anima
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
In the marketplace lay the child, fallen to its death,
in blue clothing, twisted into a lifeless bundle.
The bird had attracted it, that in the wind
had flown up to the morning window.
The mother came and took it in her lap.
She did not weep. She was able to pray.
The square was like Sunday, bright and grand.
Consolation from on high had entered in.
O birds, fly, fly up into the wind!
And window-play and sky-blue child.
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