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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems With Parallel German Text, OUP Oxford, 2011, p.50

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• by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Gedichte 1906 bis 1910 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jean-Yves Masson ; composed by Stéphane Bortoli.
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