The forest-farmer poet of Styria, Peter Rosegger was the eldest son of a large peasant family in the village of Alpl (present-day Krieglach). Life in a 19th century Austrian farming community was beautiful but tough. Prone to illness and limited to the lessons of a wandering teacher, Rosegger was forced

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Auch der andre, der bist du (The Other, Too, Is You) STANZA ONE Was die Erde mir geliehen, Fordert sie schon jetzt zurück. Naht sich, mir vom Leib zu ziehen Sanft entwindend Stück für Stück. What the Earth to me entrusted she’s already urging back; draws in close to wrest

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