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Lost Paradise

lost paradise

also: verlorenes Paradies, O unser verlorenes Paradies

In Trakl's Psalm (Gedichte, section 39), the exclamation 'O our lost paradise' condenses the Edenic fall into a single elegiac cry amid a catalogue of modern urban wreckage. The phrase echoes Genesis and Milton while firmly refusing consolation.

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