Space! Space! break paths, wild bosom!

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Space! Space! break paths, wild bosom!

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Space! Space! break paths, wild bosom!
I feel it and marvel every evening,
that not only one sun laughs;
life itself is the joy of life!
Plunge in, plunge in with blind hands,
you have never yet known the goal;
ten thousand stars everywhere
there stand ten thousand suns and pour forth
their beams into our breast!

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Drei Ringe ", subtitle: "Elegie", appears in Weib und Welt

This text was added to the website: 2015-04-09
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Word count: 57