Friday, September 21, 2012

Einst dem Grau der Nacht ...

Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht, 1918 (watercolor on paper mounted on board)

Einst dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht

Dann schwer und teurer

und stark vom Feuer

Abends voll von Gott und gebugt


Nun ätherlings vom Blau umschauert,

entschwebt über Firner

zu Klugen Gestirnen.

Once emerged from the gray of night

Then ponderous and prized

and strengthened by fire

Evenings bowed by the fullness of God


Now heavenly showered with blue,

vanished over snow-covered mountains

to the knowing stars.
(English translation by Kathryn Porter Aichele)

Paul Klee (born 18 December, 1879; died 29 June, 1940)


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