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The Most Beautiful

Rose Ausländer · 1901 – 1988

I escape
into your magic tent
love
In the breathing forest
where grass tops
are bowing
Because
there is nothing more beautiful

Rose Ausländer (1901 – 1988)
Translation Germain Droogenbroodt
From: Ich höre das Herz des Oleanders
Gedichte 1977-1979, Fischer Verlag

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