by
Hildegard Jone (1891 - 1963)
Das Augenlicht
Language: German (Deutsch)
Durch unsre offnen Augen fließt das Licht ins Herz
und strömt als Freude sanft zurück aus ihnen.
Im Liebesblick quillt mehr herauf als je herabgedrungen.
Was ist geschehen, wenn das Auge strahlt?
Sehr Wunderbares muß es uns verraten:
Daß eines Menschen Innerstes zum Himmel ward
mit soviel Sternen als die Nacht erhellen,
mit einer Sonne, die den Tag erweckt.
O Meer des Blickes mit der Tränenbrandung.
Die Tropfen, welche sie versprüht auf Wimpernhalme,
vom Herzen und der Sonne werden sie beschienen.
Wenn sich die Nacht der Lider über deine Tiefen
still niedersenkt, dann spülen deine Wasser
an die des Todes: deiner Tiefen Schätze,
die tagerworbnen, nimmt er sacht mit sich.
Jedoch aus seinen unergründlich dunklen Tiefen,
wenn mit den Lidern sich der Tag erhebt,
ist manches seiner Wunder in den Blick, den neuen,
heraufgeschwommen, und es macht ihn gut.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Sight", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Sight
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Through our open eyes light flows into our hearts
and, as joy, it gently streams forth from them again.
In the gaze of love, more wells up than ever penetrated down.
What has happened when the eyes glow?
It must reveal to us something very wondrous:
That the inmost part of a human became a heaven
with as many stars as brighten the night,
with a sun that wakens the day.
Oh sea of the glance with a surf of tears.
The drops, which it sprays upon the haulms of the lashes,
the heart and the sun shine upon them.
When the night of the eyelids quietly descends
upon your depths, then your waters flow, touching
those of Death: the treasures of your depths,
those won in the course of the day, he gently takes with him.
Nevertheless, when with the eyelids the day arises,
some of the wonders from his unfathomable, dark depths
have surfaced into your gaze --
your new gaze -- and this ennobles it.
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