{"id":1568,"date":"2012-03-29T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:54:49","slug":"transfigured-night-richard-dehmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Transfigured night: Richard Dehmel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Together they watched the moon –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the days of confession what must the response be?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A German author, Dehmel, expressed it in this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Zwei Menschen gehn durch kahlen, kalten Hain;
der Mond l\u00e4uft mit, sie schaun hinein.
Der Mond l\u00e4uft \u00fcber hohe Eichen;
kein W\u00f6lkchen tr\u00fcbt das Himmelslicht,
in das die schwarzen Zacken reichen.
Die Stimme eines Weibes spricht:

\u201eIch trag ein Kind, und nit von Dir,
ich geh in S\u00fcnde neben Dir.
Ich hab mich schwer an mir vergangen.
Ich glaubte nicht mehr an ein Gl\u00fcck
und hatte doch ein schwer Verlangen
nach Lebensinhalt, nach Muttergl\u00fcck

und Pflicht; da hab ich mich erfrecht,
da lie\u00df ich schaudernd mein Geschlecht
von einem fremden Mann umfangen,
und hab mich noch daf\u00fcr gesegnet.
Nun hat das Leben sich ger\u00e4cht:
nun bin ich Dir, o Dir, begegnet.\u201f

Sie geht mit ungelenkem Schritt.
Sie schaut empor; der Mond l\u00e4uft mit.
Ihr dunkler Blick ertrinkt in Licht.
Die Stimme eines Mannes spricht:

\u201eDas Kind, das Du empfangen hast,
sei Deiner Seele keine Last,
o sieh, wie klar das Weltall schimmert!
Es ist ein Glanz um alles her;
Du treibst mit mir auf kaltem Meer,
doch eine eigne W\u00e4rme flimmert
von Dir in mich, von mir in Dich.

Die wird das fremde Kind verkl\u00e4ren,
Du wirst es mir, von mir geb\u00e4ren;
Du hast den Glanz in mich gebracht,
Du hast mich selbst zum Kind gemacht.\u201f
Er fa\u00dft sie um die starken H\u00fcften.
Ihr Atem k\u00fc\u00dft sich in den L\u00fcften.
Zwei Menschen gehn durch hohe, helle Nacht.<\/td>		Two people walk through a dark, dank grove
together they gaze at the moon above.
High over the oaks stands the moon,
No cloud disturbs its heavenly light,
Unto which the black tree tops strain.
A woman’s voice sounds out at night:

I have a child and not by you,
I walk in sin but near to you.
With myself I have dealt badly
I thought too little in my yearning
And yet I had the strongest plea
for life’s fulfilment, mothers’ longing

And her duty; so I to myself have evil done
and let my body be embraced and overcome,
as to a stranger I yielded entrance.
And for this impost myself I blessed.
Now has life risen with a vengeance
I now have you; our paths have crossed!

She walks with uneasy, painful gait
She looks up, the moon runs at a rate.
Her dark gaze is clothed in light.
A he-man’s voice sounds out at night:

The child that you now do carry
Shall to your soul no burden be.
Behold, how brightly shines the world above.
It is the best of all that’s here;
You strive with me on its cold sea
to shift a peculiar warmth of love
from you to me, from me to you.

Your strange child shall transfigured be.
You will give her to me, give birth for me;
You have the best in me revealed,
You have made me into a child.
He fastened himself about her strong hips.
Their breath in the air curled and kissed.
Two people walk through transfigured night.<\/td>
For Hurren’s more literal translation click here<\/i><\/span> to revert to Coco’s here<\/i><\/span><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Moonlit Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Joseph was faced with a similar message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.

But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. | And she will bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: | “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel,” which is translated, God with us.

Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, | and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn son. And he called his name Jesus.





Matthew 1:18-25
NKJV<\/td>		Die Geburt Christi war aber also getan. Als Maria, seine Mutter, dem Joseph vertraut war, fand sich’s ehe er sie heimholte, da\u00df sie schwanger war von dem heiligen Geist.

Joseph aber, ihr Mann, war fromm und wollte sie nicht in Schande bringen, gedachte aber, sie heimlich zu verlassen.

Indem er aber also gedachte, siehe, da erschien ihm ein Engel des HERRN im Traum und sprach: \u201eJoseph, du Sohn Davids, f\u00fcrchte dich nicht, Maria, dein Gemahl, zu dir zu nehmen; denn das in ihr geboren ist, das ist von dem heiligen Geist. | Und sie wird einen Sohn geb\u00e4ren, des Namen sollst du Jesus hei\u00dfen; denn er wird sein Volk selig machen von ihren S\u00fcnden.\u201f
Das ist aber alles geschehen, auf da\u00df erf\u00fcllt w\u00fcrde, was der HERR durch den Propheten gesagt hat, der da spricht: | \u201eSiehe, eine Jungfrau wird schwanger sein und einen Sohn geb\u00e4ren, und sie werden seinen Namen Immanuel hei\u00dfen\u201f, das ist verdolmetscht: Gott mit uns.

Da nun Joseph vom Schlaf erwachte, tat er, wie ihm des HERRN Engel befohlen hatte, und nahm sein Gemahl zu sich. | Und er erkannte sie nicht, bis sie ihren ersten Sohn gebar; und hie\u00df seinen Namen Jesus.






Matthaeus 1:18-25
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