# 1582 - Kawa = Flow serie (c) Yamamoto Masao
During his stay on Capri, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a small collection of lyrical prose that goes under the name “Notes from Naples and Capri”, as well as a rather large number of poems, of which 8 were included in the two parts of “New Poems” which was published in 1907.
Here is the best known of these. “Song of the sea’. We are at Piccola Marina on the island’s southern shore, at night, facing the sea.
SONG OF THE SEA
Timeless sea breezes,
sea-wind of the night:
you come for no one;
if someone should wake,
he must be prepared
how to survive you.
Timeless sea breezes,
that for aeons have
blown ancient rocks,
you are purest space
coming from afar…
Oh, how a fruit-bearing
fig tree feels your coming
high up in the moonlight.
Uraltes Wehn vom Meer,
Meerwind bei Nacht:
du kommst zu keinem her;
wenn einer wacht
som muß er sehn, wie er
dich übersteht:
uraltes Wehn vom Meer,
welches weht
nur wie für Ur-Gestein,
lauter Raum
reißend von weit herein …
O wie fühlt dich ein
treibender Feigenbaum
oben im Mondschein.
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