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Aus des Meeres dunklen Tiefen Stieg die Venus still empor, Als die Nachtigallen riefen In dem Hain, den sie erkor. Und zum Spiegel, voll Verlangen, Glätteten die Wogen sich, Um ihr Bild noch aufzufangen, Da sie selbst auf ewig wich. Lächelnd gönnte sie dem feuchten Element den letzten Blick, Davon blieb dem Meer sein Leuchten Bis auf diesen Tag zurück.
Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Hebbel. Gesammt-Ausgabe stark vermehrt und verbessert, Stuttgart und Augsburg, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1857, page 258.
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De les ombrívoles fondàries del mar emergí Venus en silenci, mentre els rossinyols cantaven al bosquet que ella havia escollit. I, com un mirall, plenes d’anhel, les onades s'allisaren, per copsar la seva imatge, mentre ella mateixa s'esvaïa per sempre. Somrient, concedí a l'element aquàtic un darrer esguard; d'aquí prové que el mar mantingui la seva resplendor fins al dia d'avui.
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