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About Artist:
“You will want to learn this by heart,” our German teacher said, while handing out copies of Herbsttag. She was right. Rilke’s musical, elegiac poem comes to mind every autumn. Sometimes, walking alone in the woods, I find myself reciting it aloud. Like most great poems, Herbsttag resists a satisfying translation. Here is the matter without the music:
Fall Day Rainer Maria Rilke
Lord, it is time. Summer has been grand.
Lay your shadows now across the sundials;
let your winds flow free upon the fields.
Tell the tardy grapes to ripen.
Give them just a few more southern days.
Urge them to perfection then, and chase
their sweetness into weighty wine.
Who has no house now, will never build.
Who is now alone, will long remain so;
will lie awake and read and write long letters,
and wander to and fro on tree-lined streets,
restless, as the leaves come floating down.
F T Kettering
Fall Day
- 2019
- Dimensions: 75" x 36"
- Fine Art Category: photography
- Medium: Pigment print
- Origin: USA
- Price: $5,000.00 USD
