by
Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
When Mary thro' the garden went
Language: English
When Mary thro' the garden went,
There was no sound of any bird,
And yet, because the night was spent,
The little grasses lightly stirred,
The flowers awoke, the lilies heard.
When Mary thro' the garden went,
The dew lay still on flower and grass,
The waving palms above her sent
Their fragrance out as she did pass.
No light upon [the]1 branches was.
When Mary thro' the garden went,
Her eyes, for weeping long, were dim.
The grass beneath her footsteps bent,
The solemn lilies, white and slim,
These also stood and wept for Him.
When Mary thro' the garden went,
She sought, within the garden ground,
One for Whom her heart was rent,
One Who for her sake was bound,
One Who sought and she was found.
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1 Stanford: "their"
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Als Maria durch den Garten ging", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Als Maria durch den Garten ging
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Als Maria durch den Garten ging
schwiegen alle Vögel;
Und doch, da die Nacht vorüber war,
bewegte sich das Gras ein wenig,
die Blumen erwachten, die Lilien lauschten.
Als Maria durch den Garten ging
lag der Tau auf Blumen und Gras.
Die sanft bewegten Palmen verströmten
ihren Duft als sie vorüberging.
Kein Licht lag auf ihren Zweigen.
Als Maria durch den Garten ging
waren ihre Augen vom vielen Weinen trüb.
Das Gras neigte sich unter ihrem Schritt,
die ernsten Lilien, weiß und schlank,
sie weinten auch um Ihn.
Als Maria durch den Garten ging
suchte sie in diesem Garten
einen, um dessen Willen ihr Herz brach,
einen, der ihr zum Heil gefesselt ward,
einen, der suchte -- und sie ward gefunden.
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- a text in English by Mary Coleridge (1861 - 1907), "When Mary thro' the garden went", appears in Poems, no. 70, first published 1907
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 120