Dirait-on
by
Rainer Maria Rilke
musical arrangements include that by
Morten Lauridsen
Abandon entoure d'abandon,
tendresse touchant aux tendresses...
C'est ton interieur qui sans cesse
se caresse, dirait-on;
se caresse, en soi-memê,
par son propre reflet eclaire.
Ainsi tu inventes le theme
du Narcisse exauce.
Abandon surrounding abandon,
tenderness touching tenderness...
Your oneness endlessly
caresses itself,
so they say;
self-caressing
through its own
clear reflection.
Thus you invent the theme
of
Narcissus fulfilled.