West-Eastern Divan. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Название: West-Eastern Divan
Автор: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9783849658700
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When the guide enchantingly,
From his mule-back seat on high,
Sings, to rouse the stars, or scare
The lurking robber in his lair.
In bath or inn my thought would be,
Holy Hafiz, still of thee;
Or when the veil a sweetheart lifts
From amber locks in odorous drifts;
Ay, whispered loves of poet fire
Even the Houris to desire!
Would you envy him for this,
Or bring despite upon his bliss,
Know that words of poets rise
To the gate of Paradise,
Hover round, knock light, implore
Heavenly life for evermore.
II. PLEDGES OF BLESSING
FROM a cornelian Talisman
Glad prosperous days the faithful gain;
If on an onyx ground it rest
To lips devout let it be pressed!
All that is ill away 'twill chase,
It shields you and it shields the place;
If the engraven word proclaim
With pure intention Allah's name,
To love and deed it will inflame;
And women, more than others can,
Will vantage by the Talisman.
Like symbols, but on paper set
By pen-craft, form the Amulet;
No narrow limit here will hem
The scribe as with the graven gem,
And pious souls may thus rejoice
In longer verses of their choice;
Such papers round the neck men wear
Devoutly as a scapular.
Behind the Inscription no hid meanings lie;
It is itself – the sentence tells you all;
And this once read will straightway make you call
With glad assent – " Tis I that say it, I."
Abraxas I will seldom bring!
Here chiefly the distorted thought
Some gloomy madness has begot
Would pass for the divinest thing.
If things absurd I speak, believe
Tis an Abraxas that I give.
A Signet-ring's design craves studious care;
The highest sense in narrowest room must fit;
Yet if you plant a true idea there,
Graven stands the word and scarce you think of it.
III. FREEDOM OF SPIRIT
MINE be the saddle still, to ride
While you in hut or tent abide!
And gay I gallop through wilds afar,
Nought o'er my bonnet save the star.
The stars were appointed by His voice,
Your guides over land and sea,
That the heart within you may rejoice
And your glance still heavenward be.
IV. TALISMANS
GOD'S very own the Orient!
God's very own the Occident!
The North land and the Southern land
Rest in the quiet of His hand.
Justice apportioned to each one
Wills He Who is the Just alone.
Name all His hundred names, and then
Be this name lauded high! Amen.
Error would hold me tangled, yet
Thou knowest to free me from the net.
Whether I act or meditate
Grant me a way that shall be straight.
If earthly things possess my mind
Through these some higher gain I find;
Not blown abroad like dust, but driven
Inward, the spirit mounts toward heaven.
In every breath we breathe two graces share –
The indraught and the outflow of the air;
That is a toil, but this refreshment brings;
So marvellous are our life's comminglings.
Thank God when thou dost feel His hand constrain,
And thank when He releases Thee again.
V. FOUR GRACES
THAT glad of heart the Arab should
Roam his wild spaces o'er,
Hath Allah for the general good
Granted him graces four.
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