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William Butler Yeats, The Mountain Tomb

06.07.2016

Pour wine and dance if manhood still have pride,
Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom;
The cataract smokes upon the mountain side,
Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.

Pull down the blinds, bring fiddle and clarionet
That there be no foot silent in the room
Nor mouth from kissing, nor from wine unwet;
Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.

In vain, in pain; the cataract still cries;
The everlasting taper lights the gloom;
All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes,
Our Father Rosicross sleeps in his tomb.

 

Das Grab im Gebirg

Schütte den Wein und tanze, gilt uns noch Ehre,
bringe Rosen, die noch würzen die Luft.
Der Wasserfall raucht über Berges Schwere,
unser Vater Rosencreutz ruht in der Gruft.

Die Läden dicht, Fiedel und Klarinette locken,
der Tänzer Walzen vertreibe den Schlaf.
Keines Mund bleibe von Küssen, vom Weine trocken,
unser Vater Rosencreutz, er ruht im Grab.

O Wahn, o Weh, so schreit der Wasserfall,
das ewige Licht vertilgt die düstre Luft.
Alle Weisheit sank in seiner Augen Onyxball,
unser Vater Rosencreutz schläft in der Gruft.

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