Showing posts with label Exit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exit. Show all posts

Friday, January 12, 2018

"Exit": Theodor Fontane's "Ausgang" (English translation by Rolf-Peter Wille)


                   Exit

                            
                      Theodor Fontane (1895)

Ever tighter, gently, gently,
Draw the rings of life intently,
Dwindles down that strident strut,
Dwindles hoping, loving, hating,
And is nothing left but waiting
For the final swarthy dot.

                            tr. by Rolf-Peter Wille