The Sonnets To Orpheus: XIX

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

Though the world keeps changing its form as fast as a cloud, still what is accomplished falls home to the Primeval.

Over the change and the passing, larger and freer, soars your eternal song, god with the lyre.

Never has grief been possesed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death

is not revealed. Only the song through the land hallows and heals.

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