by
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
After a hundred years
Language: English
After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony that enacted there
Motionless as peace.
Weeds triumphant ranged;
Strangers strolled and spelled
At the lone orthography
Of the elder dead.
Winds of summer fields
Recollect the way,
Instinct picking up the key
Dropped by memory.
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Nach hundert Jahren kennt
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Nach hundert Jahren kennt
die Stätte keiner mehr,
wo einstmals Agonie präsent -
Friede nunmehr.
Fremde schlendern dahin,
wo siegreich Wildwuchs sprießt,
der alten Grabinschriften Sinn
sich schwer erschließt.
Winde auf Sommerflur
erinnern Weg und Ziel -
Eingebung hebt den Schlüssel auf,
der uns entfiel.
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