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- Else Meidner 1901–1987
- Title
- Poem by Else Meidner titled ‘Eternal Farewell’
- Date
- c.1970
- Format
- Document - writings
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
- Reference
- TGA 20062/7/128/2/29
Description
[Transcription/translation]
Eternal Farewell
Eternal farewell to you, my beloved,
Means goodbye to the wonders of the world!
Was it not through you I learned to see and to understand
Creation’s consummate wisdom?
Deep blue, gold and burning red flowers
In an emerald carpet of meadow,
Sudden efflorescence of mysteries obscure,
Growth and resplendence, earthly beauty incandescent!
So often I’ve been enchanted by violets of velvet,
Charmed and dumbfounded by the fair scent of rose,
By wheatfields of yellow in summer winds swaying,
The benevolent shade of magnificent boughs!
Eternal farewell to Creation sublime,
Which falls into darkness lacklustre without love.
Else Meidner
25 March 1958
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Working papers relating to artistic, cultural and historic figures TGA 20062/7 (106)
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- Else Meidner TGA 20062/7/128 (29)
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- Numbered correspondence from Else Meidner to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/7/128/2 (17)
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- Poem by Else Meidner titled ‘Eternal Farewell’ TGA 20062/7/128/2/29