[lit-ideas] Re: I do remember ...

Thanks very much to all for conversation, condolences and such both on and off-list.
(I'm now setting my account on 'vacation' mode and leaving for Canada for 2 weeks ....) 

Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany

Jean et Jeanne
-Yves Bonnefoy

Tu demandes le nom
De cette maison basse delabree,
C'est Jean et Jeanne en un autre pays.

Quand les larges vents passent
Le seuil ou rien ne chante ni parait.

C'est Jean et Jeanne et de leurs faces grises
Le platre du jour tombe et je revois
La vitre des etes anciens.  Te souviens-tu?
La plus brilliant au loin, l'arche fille des ombres.

Aujourd'hui, ce soir, nour ferons un feu
Dans la grande salle.
Nous nous eloignerons,
Nous le laisserons vivre pour les morts.
[ Translation by A. Hartley: "You ask the name of this low ruined house, it is Jean and Jeanne in another country. When the wide winds pass the threshhold where nothing sings or appears. It is Jean and Jeanne and day's plaster falls from their grey faces and I see again the window-pane of old summers. Do you remember? Far off the most shining one, arch daughter of shadows. Today in the evening we shall make a fire in the great hall. We shall withdraw, we shall let it live for the dead."] 
--

------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html

Other related posts: