Grabschrift Marianae Gryphiae,
Andreas Gryphius 1616 (Głogów) – 1664 (Głogów)
Geboren in der Flucht, umringt mit Schwert und Brand,
Schier in dem Rauch erstickt, der Mutter herbes Pfand,
Des Vatern höchste Furcht, die an das Licht gedrungen,
Als die ergrimmte Glut mein Vaterland verschlungen:
Ich habe diese Welt beschaut und bald gesegnet,
Weil mir auf Einen Tag all' Angst der Welt begegnet;
Wo ihr die Tage zählt, so bin ich jung verschwunden,
Sehr alt, wofern ihr schätzt, was ich für Angst empfunden.
Epitaph for Mariana Gryphius,
I: born in flight, breathing the smoke of war,
ringed round with fire and steel, my father's care,
my mother's pain, was thrust into the light
as my land sank in angry, burning night.
I saw the world, and soon I looked away,
since all its terrors met me on one day.
Though I died young, if only days are told,
count up my fears, and I was very old.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 1, 8 |
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