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Rilke, Rainer Maria - 16 Third Elegy
Identifier
015336
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
A description of the experience
Duino Elegies – Rainer Maria Rilke [The Third Elegy]
And you yourself, how could you know – that you stirred up primordial time in your lover.
What feelings welled up from lost lives.
What women hated you there.
What sinister men you roused up in his young veins.
Dead children wanted you.....
O, gently, gently, show him with love a confident daily task –
lead him near to the Garden,
give him what outweighs those nights........
Be in him...............