Night on our earth

Night on our earth now has fallen.
Shimmering starlit, sheen!
Our small worlds wander so distant.
Darkness so endless seems.
Darkness and depth and the dusk hour,
why, why do I love them?
Though the stars wander so distant.
Earth is still our human home.

(Erik Blomberg, transl. Linda Schenck)

Oh do not fear the darkness

Oh do not fear the darkness,
it is the home of light.
Had we no dark skies over us,
ne’er we’d see stars so bright.
Deep in our light ring of iris,
we have a pupil dark,
for darkness is what bright light
does trembling long to mark.
Oh do not fear the darkness,
it is the home of light.
Oh do not fear the darkness,
it is the core of light.

Erik Blomberg, English translation by Linda Schenck