Rooms Not Minds – TB 7 July at "Under The ToadsTool"

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So much symbolism
Without any understanding.
There’s a chessboard in the room
And the room is on fire.
The people are static.
They are pondering their next move.
But why don’t they move
When the table is on fire?

Goethe-Gedichte Selected German Verse by J.W. Goethe (German and English Poetry)

Selected German Verse by J.W. Goethe
From your Guide for German Language
 
In the original German with a
side-by-side poetic translation in English.

 

Wandrers Nachtlied II	Wayfarer's Night Song II
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Prose Translation by Hyde Flippo
Über allen Gipfeln	Over all the hilltops
Ist Ruh,	is calm.
In allen Wipfeln	In all the treetops
Spürest du	you feel
Kaum einen Hauch;	hardly a breath of air.
Die Vögelein schweigen in Walde.	The little birds fall silent in the woods.
Warte nur, balde	Just wait... soon
Ruhest du auch.	you'll also be at rest.