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Rilke, Rainer Maria - 07 Second Elegy
Identifier
015329
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Herbert James Draper, The Vintage Morn
A description of the experience
Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke [The Second Elegy]
Early successes,
Creation’s favourite ones,
mountain-chains, ridges reddened by dawns
of all origin – pollen of flowering godhead,
junctions of light, corridors, stairs, thrones,
spaces of being, shields of bliss,
tempests of storm-filled, delighted feeling
and, suddenly, solitary mirrors:
gathering their own out-streamed beauty
back into their faces again.