Evening

Happy bank holiday weekend, friends. A short newsletter today, for lengthening evenings and a little wonder — your life, “now immeasurable, now bounded / it is alternately stone in you and star”. Read it this morning and perhaps again this evening.

Love, Rosie x

Evening

The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;

and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.

Ranier Maria Rilke

translated by Stephen Mitchell