European Elegies/Autumn (2)/"All tired things"
98.“ALL TIRED THINGS”
All tired things of earth now find
Relief in sleep,
While gently the great shepherd wind
Herds home his sheep.
Relief in sleep,
While gently the great shepherd wind
Herds home his sheep.
All through the day he drove them far,
From east to west,
And now behind the star-fold bar
Brings them to rest.
From east to west,
And now behind the star-fold bar
Brings them to rest.
In silence from the sight are borne
The snow-fleeced flock;
And the great shepherd drops his horn,
Lays down his stock.
The snow-fleeced flock;
And the great shepherd drops his horn,
Lays down his stock.
Softly he bars the skyey gate,
With drowsy croon,
While o'er the bridge of heaven strides late
The watchman-moon.
With drowsy croon,
While o'er the bridge of heaven strides late
The watchman-moon.
Light-flooded all the moorlands lie,
Slumbering and still,
Save for the dark waves' stifled sigh
Beneath the hill.
Slumbering and still,
Save for the dark waves' stifled sigh
Beneath the hill.
All tired things of earth now find
Relief in sleep,
For the great shepherd of all living kind
Has lodged his sheep.
Relief in sleep,
For the great shepherd of all living kind
Has lodged his sheep.
From the Danish of L. C. Nielsen.