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No one mentioning the movie "Telefon" (1977) where this poem is used to wake up the sleepers :) This is where I learned of the German translation (watching the
by ofrzeta 2y ago
No one mentioning the movie "Telefon" (1977) where this poem is used to wake up the sleepers :)
This is where I learned of the German translation (watching the movie in German):
Des Waldes Dunkel zieht mich an,
doch muss zu meinem Wort ich stehen,
und Meilen gehen,
bevor ich schlafen kann.
- xbar 2y agoNo, many have forgotten it, but it is strangely one of the references that arises for me most quickly because at age 12, my best friend used to quote it from Telefon. I wouldn't read from seriously for several more years yet, and both my friend and I became English lit undergrads.