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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOON TABLEAUX: 4, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poet's Biography
First Line: A boomerang flies through the evening clouds
Last Line: Golden-yellow boomerang!
Subject(s): Boomerangs
First Line: A boomerang flies through the evening clouds
Last Line: Golden-yellow boomerang!
Subject(s): Boomerangs
A boomerang flies through the evening clouds,
A golden-yellow boomerang.
And I think to myself: Hullo!
An Australian blackfellow angel
Must have hurled that
Out of the Happy Hunting-Grounds—
Perhaps inadvertently?
The poor blackfellow!
In the end a cherub prevents him
From climbing the heavenly fence
So that he may get his weapon
Back again ...
Oh, darling cherub,
I beg you, for the blackfellow's sake,
Consider:
It is such a beautiful,
Precious,
Golden-yellow boomerang!
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