Richard Dehmel (1863-1920). Through the Night. Margarete Munsterberg, ed., trans. 1916. A Harvest of German Verse

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Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

Through the Night

By Richard Dehmel (1863–1920)


BUT ever you, this sombre you,
Through all the night this hollow soaring
Of sound—and through the wires a roaring:
The homeward road my steps pursue.

And pace for pace this sombre you,	5
As if from pole to pole ’twere soaring;
Of thousand words I hear a roaring,
And dumb my homeward road pursue.