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In an uncollected poem, “The Hand,” written at the time of the Sonnets (1922), these themes of recovery and death are pondered again as if the poem wanted to return to the question of how a human hand, stained with death and greed, can yet accomplish such gentleness as is required of one who holds in his hand a little bird. “Siehe diese kleine Meise,/hereinverirrte ins Zimmer.”