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05/12/2008 15:31 par xyoussef
this is the stadium where we play football matches. Totally covered by the snow
Down long broad flights of lamplit stairs we flow;
Noisy, in scattered waves, crowding and shouting;
In broken slow cascades.
The gardens extend before us . . . We spread out swiftly;
Trees are above us, and darkness. The canyon fades . . .
One of us sings in the street, and we listen to him;
The words ring over us like vague bells of sorrow.
He sings of a house he lived in long ago.
It is strange; this house of dust was the house I lived in;
The house you lived in, the house that all of us know.
And coiling slowly about him, and laughing at him,
And throwing him pennies, we bear away
A mournful echo of other times and places,
And follow a dream . . . a dream that will not stay.
The snow floats down upon us, we turn, we turn,
Through gorges filled with light we sound and flow . . .
One is struck down and hurt, we crowd about him,
We bear him away, gaze after his listless body;
But whether he lives or dies we do not know.
The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . .
It eddies around pale lilac lamps, and falls
Down golden-windowed walls.
We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain,
We do not remember the red roots whence we rose,
But we know that we rose and walked, that after a while
We shall lie down again.
Sous la neige,
les arbres dansent
et se dandinent
sur la violente
musique
du vent.
Les branches craquent
de ne pouvoir
applaudir
C'est un après-midi du Nord.
Le ciel est blanc et morne. Il neige ;
Et l'arbre du chemin se tord
Sous la rafale qui l'assiège.
Depuis l'aurore, il neige à flots ;
Tout s'efface sous la tourmente.
A travers ses rauques sanglots
Une cloche au loin se lamente.
Last night I dreamt of snow falling
I could see the swirling flakes
I felt no chill just childlike wonder
A dreamers acceptance
That the snow was real
And as my memory fades
Its understood that the snow was not true
Was my sleep like a snow-globe?
Frozen scene a liquid vacuum
Of something I did not know I wanted
Tonight if I don't dream of snow again
Will I miss it?