Autumn Day

                     

                   

 

 

           

Lord: it is time. Summer was very large.

Lay your shadow on the sundials

and let the winds free on the open fields.

 

Command the last fruits to be full;

give them two more southernly days,

urge them towards completion and chase

the last sweetness into the heavy wine.

 

Who now has no house does not build one anymore.

Who is alone now will be so for a long time,

will stay awake, read, write long letters

and will wander restlessly through the avenues,

back and forth, when the leaves are drifting.  

german