< Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1918)

MARY VIRGIN

 

How came, how came from out thy night
Mary, so much light
And so much gloom:
Who was thy bridegroom?

 

Thou callest, thou callest and thou hast forgot
That thou the same art not
Who came to me
In thy Virginity.

 

I am still so blossoming, so young.
How shall I go on tiptoe
From childhood to Annunciation
Through the dim twilight
Into thy Garden.

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