<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">Autumn</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">as if orchards were dying high in space.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no.”</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">And tonight the heavy earth is falling</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">away from all the other stars in the loneliness.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">We're all falling. This hand here is falling.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">And look at the other one…. it’s in them all.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">And yet there is Someone, whose hands</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">Infinitely calm, hold up all this falling.</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rainer Maria Rilke</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.666666px;">(Translated from the German by Robert Bly)</div></div></div></body></html>