Simply she stands at the cathedral’s <br />great ascent, close to the rose window, <br />with the apple in the apple-pose, <br />guiltless-guilty once and for all <br /> <br />of the growing she gave birth to <br />since form the circle of eternities <br />loving she went forth, top struggle through <br />her way throughout the earth like a young year. <br /> <br />Ah, gladly yet a little in that land <br />Would she have lingered, heeding the harmony <br />And understanding of the animals. <br /> <br />But since she found the man determined, <br />She went with him, aspiring after death, <br />And she had as yet hardly known God.<br /><br />Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eve/
