Calendar Of The Soul - Week 27

September 21 2008 – September 27, 2008
Twenty-seventh Week

When to my being's depths I penetrate,
There stirs expectant longing
That self-observing, I may find myself
As gift of summer sun, a seed
That warming lives in autumn mood
As germinating force of soul.

English translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch
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In meines Wesens Tiefen dringen:
Erregt ein ahnungsvolles Sehnen,
Dass ich mich selbstbetrachtend finde,
Als Sommersonnengabe, die als Keim
In Herbstesstimmung wärmend lebt
Als meiner Seele Kräftetrieb.

The Year Participated translation by Owen Barfield
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To fathom my own Being is to stir
a tell-tale longing -- longing that is shown,
if then myself I scan,
to be the bounty of the summer sun,
be summer's bounty that lives on
seeded in warm autumnal mood
and germinates as vigour in my soul.

(provided with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Press)

Keep a joyful spirit
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