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[Manuscript Poem] Marie Madeleine "Ein Erntelied" ("A Harvest Song") c.1905 Manuscript poem by Marie Madeleine, the subject of Ronald K. Siegel s 2016 book The Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine in the Time of Nazis. Folded paper sheet written on two sides, eight verses of four lines each.Text in German. Signed by Marie Madeleine. Gertrud Günther (1881-1944), under the pen name of Marie Madeleine, was a Jewish German poet who became infamous for her erotic works on lesbian love and the ecstasy of morphine. The first few lines translated roughly in English read:A harvest song. /How endlessly the heights spread! -/The path is so steep and narrow, --/Do you want to lead me across/Over the dark valley?-/On all rustling forests/The sunset glows. /In the yellow fields of corn/ Death sits and fiddles. /That sounds so sweet and soft… From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs. . Paper with additional horizontal center fold, small fold tear. Erasure marks in the upper right corner on the first side. Signature with small ink smudge. Very good manuscript work from this protagonist of the Decadent movement. JBS-127. Seller Inventory # 127
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Title: Ein Erntelied (A Harvest Song)
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