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Lasker-Schüler, Else: My people (Mein Volk in English)

Portre of Lasker-Schüler, Else

Mein Volk (German)

Der Fels wird morsch,

Dem ich entspringe

Und meine Gotteslieder singe…

Jäh stürz ich vom Weg

Und riesele ganz in mir

Fernab, allein über Klagegestein

Dem Meer zu.

 

Hab mich so abgeströmt

Von meines Blutes

Mostvergorenheit.

Und immer, immer noch der Widerhall

In mir,

Wenn schauerlich gen Ost

Das morsche Felsgebein,

Mein Volk,

Zu Gott schreit.



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My people (English)

The cliff is crumbling

That I spring from

And sing my songs of God…

I fall headlong from the path

And flutter just in myself

Far away, alone over wailing stone

To the sea.

 

I have flowed so far away

From my own blood’s

Fermentation.

And always, always still cries the Echo

In me,

If uncannily to eastward

When the crumbling cliff wall,

My people,

Calls out horribly to God.



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Source of the quotationhttp://people.bu.edu

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