<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">A Walk</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">My eyes already touch the sunny hill,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">going far ahead of the road I have begun.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">it has its inner light, even from a distance--</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">and changes us, even if we do not reach it,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are;</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a gesture waves us on, answering our own wave. . .</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">but what we feel is the wind in our faces.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rainer Maria Rilke</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>( translated by Robert Bly)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; min-height: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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