Translated by A. Z. Foreman - For the First Time lyrics

In Memory of Helman Kushner The gravedigger's shirt went red in the sun, his boots went black in the white of the snow: as if the day had nightened for the first time, as if the red earth had never before gaped its mouth like this- And the mourners stood like children surprised before the coming of an hour that reddened a gravedigger's shirt and their blood became snow.