Alas, the blue arc of heaven
Is covered with gloomy clouds,
And the bright radiance of the sun
Is completely hidden
See the terrifying force of the tempest
Bows the oaks so that is groans,
And the rose on the beautiful pasture
has ben bent down by the rain.
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some poetry lines of Friedrich, c. 1807-09; as cited by C. D. Eberlein in C. D. Friedrich Bekenntnisse, p 57; as quoted and translated by Linda Siegel in Caspar David Friedrich and the Age of German Romanticism, Boston Branden Press Publishers, 1978, p. 52