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Rilke, Rainer Maria - 15 Third Elegy
Identifier
015335
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Herbert James Draper
A description of the experience
Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke [The Third Elegy]
See, we don’t love like flowers, in a single year:
when we love, an ancient sap rises in our arms.
O, girls, this: that we loved inside us, not one to come, but the immeasurable seething:
not a single child, but the fathers:
resting on our depths like the rubble of mountains:
the dry river-beds of those who were mothers - :
the whole silent landscape under a clouded or clear destiny - :
girls, this came before you.