KLAGE O wie ist alles fern |
LAMENT By Rainer Maria Rilke (English translation by the composer) O how distant is everything and long, long gone, I think that the star whose brilliance I now receive has been dead for a thousand years. I think that from the boat which just now passed I heard something frightening being said. In a house, a clock struck In which house? I would like to step out of my heart and walk beneath the great heavens. I would like to pray. One among all the stars surely must still exist. I think, I do know which alone has endured, the one that stands like a white city at the end of the radiance in the sky |