COMPOSITE

Taken 29-Mar-08

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Lost to the World

I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!

Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world's tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song!

~ Friedrich Rückert (Translation by Emily Ezust)

♫ Gustav Mahler - Fischer-Dieskau