Deathfuge

[Daniel Coughlin]

the translation i have quotes the chorus as

And death is a proud German master.

the translator takes a great many liberties with the original, but i like it 
better this way ;-)


>From: "Otto Sell" <o.sell at telda.net>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Deathfuge
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 06:42:42 +0200
>
>"Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night
>we drink you at noon death is a master from Germany
>we drink you at sundown and in the morning we drink and we
>drink you
>
>death is a master from Germany his eyes are blue
>he strikes you with leaden bullets his aim is true
>a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
>he sets his pack on us he grants us a grave in the air
>he plays with the serpents and daydreams death is a master from
>Germany
>
>your golden hair Margarete
>your ashen hair Shulamith" (trans. Michael Hamburger)
>
>from:
>http://www.spikemagazine.com/0900celan2.htm
>
>Otto
>
>

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