by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967)
Translation © by Paridam von dem Knesebeck (c1911 - 2000) and by Eva Hesse (1925 - 2020)

Montmartre
Language: English 
  Pigalle:
  A neon rose
In a champagne bottle.
  At dawn
  The petals
  Fall.

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Montmartre
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
Pigalle:/ Rose aud Neon
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Confirmed with Mein dunklen Hände. Moderne Negerlyrik in Original und Nachdichtung, herausgegeben und übertragen von Eva Hesse und Paridam von dem Knesebeck, München: Nymphenburger Verlag, 1953, page 51.


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