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    Your Warmth

    Your warmth,  your soft warmth
    I beg for,
    streaming long before man
    came on the Earth.
    In the hidden virgin forest's downy
    bird's-nests
    bore the strongholds of life
    the same protective warmth.
    
    From anguish-burning skies
    we sink into
    the darkness of the nest, where life
    no longer questions.
    For the games of the clouds are an illusion
    and a reflection,
    but all which is born an bears
    is the gift of the deep.
    
    Day is dawning, and the air is full 
    of swishing wings.
    The soaring bird rejoices:
    I live from light!
    But hidden in the silence rests
    his welfare.
    Your warmth, your deep warmth
    gives me a soul.


    Translated into English by Jenny Nunn in "To a friend".

    Swedish original



    Copyright © 1997:
    Translation from Swedish into English: Jenny Nunn

    Published with the permission of:
    Jenny Nunn, translation.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.
     
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