The Three Kings Legend

Once known as the hem of the desert itself
opened the hand of the Lord
as a fruit that summer
announces its core,
there was a miracle: Remote
recognized and greeted each other
three kings and a star.
Three kings of the road
and the star Everywhere
who moved all
so right and left Rex Rex
a silent barn.
What brought not everything
to the stable of Bethlehem!
Well explained every step wrong,
and rode a black horse,
sat velvety and comfortable.
And went to his right,
who was a golden man,
and started on his left
with momentum and swing
and sound and Kling
of a round silver thing,
hanging weighing and rings,
all blue to smoke.
Since the star laughed Everywhere
so strange about it,
and ran before, and stood at the barn
and said to Mary:
I bring a wandering
from many strangers here.
Three Kings with stomach force,
of gold and topaz difficult
and dark, tumb and pagan way,
dismayed me too much.
You have all three zuhaus
twelve daughters, a son,
they ask from your
as their sun sky blue
and comfort to her throne.
But do not you have to believe the same: only
a glitter prince and heath Sheikh
is thy son's fate.
Bedenk, the way is great.
You walk long shepherd same,
now falls to her mature Empire
God knows whom in his lap.
And while here, such as West Wind warm,
the ox umschnaubt her ear,
they are perhaps all poor
and as no head.
Drum do with your smile light
the confusion, they are,
and you set your face
after emergence and your child;
there is blue lines,
what every you left:
Smaragda and Rubinien
and the Tale of turquoise.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
