Rainer Maria Rilke - June 6th, Iyengar III

Read Apple Orchard (II) before I saw Apple Orchard (I). Oh well, (I) was more suited to an evening class.

The Apple Orchard (I)

Come now as the sun goes down.

See how evening greens the grass.

Is it not as though we had already gathered it

and saved it up inside us,

so that now, from feelings and memories,

from new hope and old pleasures,

all mixed with inner darkness,

we fling it before us under the trees.