Ganz leise tönte meine Seele mit,
und beide Seelen sangen sich: Ich litt.

Da wurde Friede tief in mir. Ich lag
im Silberhimmel zwischen Traum und Tag.

                                             Rainer Maria Rilke (aus Advent, 1898)

I was so distraught. I saw you pale and frightened.
It was in a dream. And your soul cried out.

Quietly my soul intoned with yours,
and both souls sang: I suffered.

Then came peace deep within me. I lay
in the silver heaven between dream and day.

                                                                        (trans. William Hawley)