Jetzt und ehedem [English translation]

So heavy is^ my heart

So dim the time

And never enough

It pulls me far into the maelstrom

Melancholy, pain, and joy

I can barely see the sky any more,

The blue of May

Thus this wild pang overcomes me

Now, with desire and horror

Now and formerly, now and formerly

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My pounding heart,

I throw it away,

Just in order^ to rest

And tossed and turned over desire, success,

Pain, knowledge, mountainous burdens

If it torments itself and compresses and constricts

In wild moments

There it hurls, flaming and scorched,

Upwards, what it has^ bound

Now and formerly, now and formerly

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Oh, peace, stranger of my time

I greet you

From the mute loneliness

Where I repent my life

From my life's fountain-spring

In holy floods

I look at you and quietly let

My watching* heart bleed out

Bleed out

Bleed out

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