Hey, look!
Here the North flashed by a cold steel
Menacing the Leaf Fall – violently restless.
I feel the movement of the Time Wheel –
Unhurried but inevitable, scapeless!
So, show yourself through malign, spiny air,
Oh, inflorescence of constellations o’er my head!
Mistress Hiems! With your chilling touches
Soothe this autumnal pain heavy as lead…
Light and joyous death in its highest moment –
It’s the right to see both faces of Hiem…
Still and joyous
Is the eternal infinite day…
Clean and not stained is a snow bed –
Not make a trail, not tear off the veil,
Not dare…
And the skies… –
Improbable heavens! –
It’s too clear to be real!
I remember it being torn,
Mutilated and bleeding…
Winter wraps up the earth in the blanket of snow.
It’s the endless old age of undying gods!
So, the life, which carried us out with its rapid flow,
Freezes o’er in the arms of spiteful ice!
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