tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28792103986879711752024-03-12T17:41:48.388-07:00The Lordly FreightEnglish translation by Rolf-Peter Wille of Ingeborg Bachmann's "Die große Fracht" (1953). Rolf-Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10085340601531913579noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2879210398687971175.post-14517345418682986122014-08-18T08:50:00.001-07:002014-09-03T00:05:04.004-07:00English translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's "Die große Fracht"<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingeborg_Bachmann" target="_blank">Ingeborg Bachmann</a><br />
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<b>The Lordly Freight</b><br />
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The lordly freight of summer has been loaded,<br />
the sun-ship in the port awaits to rise,<br />
when at your back the seagull dives and cries.<br />
The lordly freight of summer has been loaded.<br />
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The sun-ship in the port awaits to rise,<br />
and on the wood-lips of the figureheads<br />
alluringly the smile of lemurs spreads.<br />
The sun-ship in the port awaits to rise.<br />
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When at your back the seagull dives and cries,<br />
comes from the westward the command: ‘sink down’;<br />
yet open-eyed shall you in sunlight drown,<br />
when at your back the seagull dives and cries.<br />
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(tr. by <a href="http://www.wille.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rolf-Peter Wille</a>)<br />
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(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figurehead_(object)" target="_blank">figurehead</a>)</div>
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(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur" target="_blank">lemur</a>)</div>
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The original German:</div>
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<b> Die große Fracht</b></div>
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Die große Fracht des Sommers ist verladen,</div>
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das Sonnenschiff im Hafen liegt bereit,</div>
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wenn hinter dir die Möwe stürzt und schreit.</div>
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Die große Fracht des Sommers ist verladen.</div>
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Das Sonnenschiff im Hafen liegt bereit,</div>
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und auf die Lippen der Galionsfiguren</div>
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tritt unverhüllt das Lächeln der Lemuren.</div>
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Das Sonnenschiff im Hafen liegt bereit.</div>
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Wenn hinter dir die Möwe stürzt und schreit,</div>
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kommt aus dem Westen der Befehl zu sinken;</div>
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doch offnen Augs wirst du im Licht ertrinken,</div>
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wenn hinter dir die Möwe stürzt und schreit.</div>
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