That is my window. Just now br I have so softly wakened. br I thought that I would float. br How far does my life reach, br and where does the night begin br br I could think that everything br was still me all around; br transparent like a crystal's br depths, darkened, mute. br br I could keep even the stars br within me; so immense br my heart seems to me; so willingly br it let him go again. br br whom I began perhaps to love, perhaps to hold. br Like something strange, undreamt-of, br my fate now gazes at me. br br For what, then, am I stretched out br beneath this endlessness, br exuding fragrance like a meadow, br swayed this way and that, br br calling out and frightened br that someone will hear the call, br and destined to disappear br inside some other life.