Translated by A. Z. Foreman - By Flickering Sundown lyrics

By flickering sundown, come to the window And lean on me, let me receive Your arms round my neck, your head on my head- And let us conjoin in the eve. So blended, toward one bright, terrible Glory Our eyes will turn, silent, and see. On seas of the light we'll set, in the sunset, Our innermost fantasies free, And rustling like doves, desirously wild, They'll home for the distance, the height, To reach violet ridges, islands of glory. And there they will calmly alight... Those islands afar! Those same worlds on high Which all of our dreams foretell, Which rendered us strangers under all Heaven, Converted our lives into Hell; Those islands of gold for which we so thirsted As if for a homeland, whose way All stars of the night kept signaling out To us with one quivering ray.... On them we were left, no friend or companion: Two flowers cast out to the sands, Two lost ones who seek a thing lost forever As strangers upon a strange land.