Autumnal Homecoming
Memory, buried hope
Is preserved by this brown timber,
Dahlias hang over it
Ever more silent homecoming,
The dark reflection of childish years
By the decayed garden,
That tears fall from blue eyelids
Irresistibly;
Gloom's crystalline minutes
Gleam over
To the night.
poem by Georg Trakl
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