by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 - 1967)
Wer du auch seist: am Abend tritt hinaus
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wer du auch seist: am Abend tritt hinaus aus deiner Stube, drin du alles weißt; als letztes vor der Ferne liegt dein Haus: wer du auch seist. Mit deinen Augen, welche müde kaum von der verbrauchten Schwelle sich befrein, hebst du ganz langsam einen schwarzen Baum und stellst ihn vor den Himmel: schlank, allein. Und hast die Welt gemacht. Und sie ist groß und wie ein Wort, das noch im Schweigen reift. Und wie dein Wille ihren Sinn begreift, lassen sie deine Augen zärtlich los...
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Eingang", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2008
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Entrée", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know each bit, your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are. Then with your eyes that wearily scarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stone slowly you raise a shadowy black tree and fix it on the skYlslender, alone. And you have made the world (and it shall grow and ripen as a word, unspoken, still). When you have grasped its meaning with your will, then tenderly your eyes will let it go...
Composition:
- Set to music by Bruce Harold Babcock , "Initiation", 1975 [ tenor and chamber orchestra ], from Initiation, no. 1, Northridge : California State University
Text Authorship:
- by Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre (1890 - 1967), "Initiation"
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Eingang", appears in Das Buch der Bilder, first published 1920
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