Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me …

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition, p.289, North Point Press
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Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition, p.289, North Point Press

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