YOW! Advent calendar – the 20th door

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

The market and the streets lie deserted,
Each house is quietly lit,
Lost in thought, I wander through the streets,
Everything looks so festive.

At the windows, women have
have devoutly decorated the windows with colourful toys,
A thousand little children stand and watch,
So wonderfully still and happy.

And I wander out from within the walls
Out into the open fields,
Sublime radiance, sacred awe!
How vast and still the world is!

Stars tracing their circles high,
From the solitude of the snow
Rises like marvellous song –
O, you time full of grace!