Above: Across the Salt Marshes, Huntington, 1905, Edward Steichen . Evening . The sky puts on the darkening blue coatheld for it by a row of ancient trees;you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,one journeying to heaven, one that falls;and leave you, not at home in either one,not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomesa star each night, and rises;and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)your life, with its immensity and fear,so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,it is alternately stone in you and star.. Rainer Maria Rilke Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Above: Across the Salt Marshes, Huntington, 1905, Edward Steichen

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Evening

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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.

.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Translated by Stephen Mitchell

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