by
Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)
Gestern war, und morgen ist nicht
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Gestern war, und morgen ist nicht;
Ist denn wirklich heute?
Wird des Augenblickes Frist nicht
Eines nächsten Beute?
Laß des Zeitstroms Wogen rollen,
Die sich selbst verschlingen,
Was sie wollen, was sie sollen
Bringen, laß sie bringen.
Wie die Flut von Gottes Throne
Braust, die Welt zu tragen,
Laß dahin dich tragen, ohne
Klagen, ohne Zagen!
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Confirmed with Poetisches Tagebuch, von Friedrich Rückert. Aus seinem Nachlasse, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1888, page 275.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Yesterday was, and tomorrow is not [yet]", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Yesterday was, and tomorrow is not [yet]
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Yesterday was, and tomorrow is not [yet];
Is today then a reality?
Does not the span of a moment
Become the prey of the next one?
Let the waves of the River Time roll,
[The waves] that consume themselves,
What they want to, what they must
Bring, let them bring.
As the flood from the throne of God
Rushes so as to carry the world,
Let yourself be borne away, without
Complaints, without hesitation!
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