To the stars
Robert Kahn
Stars
in the distant heavens!
Who with your rays of a better world
Brighten the earthly twilight.
Don't your spirit eyes
Look down upon the earth
In order to instill peace
In the clouded heart?
Stars
in the distant heavens!
In your realm does one also dream
A life's fleeting dream?
Do delight, bliss,
Sadness, melancholy, pain
Beyond our sun
Also elevate a feeling heart?
Stars
in the distant heavens!
Waving from your distant places,
Do you not already bestow on me heaven's rest?
Will not one day
On the golden meadows
Unalloyed peace
Fall like dew into the tired soul?
Stars
in the distant heavens!
Until my soul takes wings
And ascends to your peace,
My yearnings cling to you
Hopefully, trustingly!
Oh, you fair, beautiful ones,
Could you possibly deceive?