Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/494/en

The nature of the bird arches like a bell over the farm and the village fieldscape. Its point of reference toward the earth is the nest. From there it widens out into the earthly and airy periphery and lives itself out, soul-wise, within its particular territory. Within the bounds of that territory the bird seeks its food and finds what stirs it to let its soul-being stream out into the surroundings — in flight, or in the branches of trees and hedgerows: whether it be like the buzzard, which, circling in the heights, lets itself be steeped in sunlight and warmth, and awakens in the beholder, through this image of earthly transcendence, the feeling of a sublime repose — akin to that of resting within one's own thoughts; or whether it be the nightingale, sounding its song at dusk along the borders of its territory; or the skylark, which in the morning hours suddenly lifts the spirit of those bent to the earth pulling weeds — with a jubilant trilling, invisible against the bright sky.