Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.
By Through the NightRichard Dehmel (18631920)
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Through all the night this hollow soaring
Of sound—and through the wires a roaring:
The homeward road my steps pursue.
As if from pole to pole ’twere soaring;
Of thousand words I hear a roaring,
And dumb my homeward road pursue.