by
Paul Wertheimer (1874 - 1937)
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Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Du weiche Nacht, o komm mich zu umfangen,
Mein Sehnen rundest du und reifst den Wein.
Ein seliges, ein stummes Heiland-Bangen
Schwellt meine Seele, zur Empfängnis rein.
Und wie ich sehnend meine Arme breite,
Da ringt sich von des Himmels Früchten los
Ein heller Keim und fällt aus Gottes Weite
In meiner Seele betend bangen Schoß.
Confirmed with Paul Wertheimer,Gedichte, Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Heinrich Meyer, 1896, page 25
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- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Conception", copyright ©
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Conception
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
You, soft night, O come and embrace me.
You round out my yearning and mature the wine.
A blissful, mute awe for the Redeemer
swells my soul, pure and ready for conception.
And as I open my arms with longing,
there fights free from heaven's fruit
a bright seed, and it falls from God's firmament
into the womb of my soul, so devout and full of awe.
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