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I Give You
Translated by Mayer Landau

I give you all my seven years of wandering
I served them not knowing quite for whom-
They lie in a wrinkle around these lips of mine,
And darken with sorrow between my brows

They are just as homeless now as I myself.
And grow autumnal with the falling leaves of weary days-
No one will come to ask then of me,
And no one will take them as he goes on his way.

Let them just once follow your longing,
It matters not where, to which edge of abyss-
Since I have no use for them anyhow-
Just take them, like a sick bird, in your hand.

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