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Requiem for a Friend by Rilke - render into Classic Chinese

Source: https://www.paratheatrical.com/requiemtext.html
I'd like to propose target text as Chinese classical forms or Chinese free form - two targets. Thank you for your kind consideration! -s.ye
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Dear pros at proz.com- I've started translating Rilke's Requiem for a friend two years ago, before this Covid-19 pandemic. I only am able to translate the first stanza from an English rendition. I wonder if anyone willing to complete this task with me.
I have my dead and I have let them go and was amazed to see them so contented, so at home in being dead, so cheerful, so unlike their reputation. Only you return; brush past me, loiter, try to knock against something, so that the sound reveals your presen
This text also speaks volumn to me, considering the recent tragedy of 21 death in this ultra-marathon race.