Vida e Existência

Rezas porque outros rezaram,
E vestes à moda alheia...
Quando amares vê se amas
Sem teres o amor na ideia.

God knows. Lie we to sleep
        Contentedly somehow,
Smiling that we did weep,
        As at an overthrow
Of kingdoms the stars, deep
        In silence, smile nor know.

God knows. And an He knew not
        And were not, what of it?
No matter that we do not
        Our life with living fit.
Glad to have sleep and tears,
        Lullaby to our fears!

Puseste por brincadeira
A touca da tua irmã.
Ó corpo de bailadeira,
Toda a noite tem manhã.

Puseste por brincadeira
A touca da tua irmã.
Ó corpo de bailadeira,
Toda a noite tem manhã.

He that would conquer must a soldier be.
He that a soldier will be must be made
To bear all the hard preface of his trade,
        All the rough training must he bear
Whereby he shall the conqueror
……

All pain, all failure and all woe ­
These are but training we must undergo
Ere those heights of ourselves we full can reach
        Whence God has things to teach
And the discarnate fate that girds us round
        Still more to teach and more to wound.

With patience and with fortitude
        Bear thou thy training rude,
Support with grace thy masters that are days
        Made of pain and amaze,
Thy potion take, even it that potion look
That Socrates for his divinity took.

To Aesculape the cock immolate,
        To the Masters of thy fate
Abandon life, thyself strong above all
        Thy power to let things thee appall,
By the sole virtue of thy power set far
        Over thy power to feel fate's war.

The rest, that thing that shall remain of thee
        When land and sky and sea
Alike are mist in thy unseeing eyes,
        This shall nowise
Mater, nor all when all is thine abode,
        Nor God himself when all is God.

He that would conquer must a soldier be.
He that a soldier will be must be made
To bear all the hard preface of his trade,
        All the rough training must he bear
Whereby he shall the conqueror
……

All pain, all failure and all woe ­
These are but training we must undergo
Ere those heights of ourselves we full can reach
        Whence God has things to teach
And the discarnate fate that girds us round
        Still more to teach and more to wound.

With patience and with fortitude
        Bear thou thy training rude,
Support with grace thy masters that are days
        Made of pain and amaze,
Thy potion take, even it that potion look
That Socrates for his divinity took.

To Aesculape the cock immolate,
        To the Masters of thy fate
Abandon life, thyself strong above all
        Thy power to let things thee appall,
By the sole virtue of thy power set far
        Over thy power to feel fate's war.

The rest, that thing that shall remain of thee
        When land and sky and sea
Alike are mist in thy unseeing eyes,
        This shall nowise
Mater, nor all when all is thine abode,
        Nor God himself when all is God.

Duas vezes jurei ser
O que julgo que sou,
Só para desconhecer
Que não sei para onde vou.

Duas vezes jurei ser
O que julgo que sou,
Só para desconhecer
Que não sei para onde vou.

One day, Time having ceased,
        Our lives shall meet again,
From Place and Name released.
        Only that shall remain
Of each of us that may
Seem natural to that Day.

There we will newly love,
        Wondering at the old mood
With which love did us move,
        When pain and solitude
Were what each soul had got
For its contingent lot.

There, heaven being between us
        And touch a real thing,
The texture luminous
        Of our true lives will bring
God into our love like breath.
Nowhere will there be death.

The need to suffer and sigh,
        The inevitable cares,
The awaiting and the cry
        That goes from joy to tears -
These have no need to be
In love's eternity.

The hours shall make our love
        Grow younger, not more old.
Some trick of time shall move
        Wont even to truer gold,
Regret shall not be aught
Possible there to thought.

That region light‑suspended
        Under truer blue skies
Shall let our souls feel blended,
        Yet be true unities.
Nought shall have power to fret
Our hearts to tire of it.

A golden land where God
        Stayed a Day of His Time,
Not as the world, where not
        A moment did he abide,
And where His passing left
The sense of aught bereft.

My heart, that thinks of this,
        Pines, for it is nowhere,
And she that meets my bliss
        With her new old love there -
She is unreal as all
That to this verse I call.

Yet who knows? Perhaps this
        Is not wishing, but seeing.
Perhaps this love, this bliss,
        This conscious glad not‑being
Is some reality
Through fancy seen by me.

Perhaps it casts a spell
        From where it can be found.
What is impossible?
        Where is God's bourne and bound?
Why, if I dream this, may
Not this be mine one day?

Who knows what our dreams are?
        Who knows all that God makes?
Perhaps life doth but mar
        The immediate truth that takes
Its beauty from being dreamed.
Nothing eter merely seemed.

Somewhere where God is nearer
        These things are een now true.
Oh, let me be no fearer
        That this may not be so!
All is more strange than that
Small glimpse of it we get.

Mine eyes are wild with joy
        Because I have these thoughts.
They cannot tire nor cloy
        Because God ever allots
To each high thing the power
To weigh not on its hour.

My flower garden is
        Full of new flowers now.
My lips are kissed by bliss
        Because I know not how.
My heart fails and I swim
Within a luminous rim.

A halo of hope comes round
        My soul. I am that child
That cries: Lo! I have found
        This flower strange and wild.
The unknown flower I have
Grew on my dead dreams' grave.

A trembling sense of being
        More than my sense can hold,
A bird of feeling seeing
        The great, earth‑hidden gold
Of the approaching dawn,
A breath, a light, a swoon,

A presence interwoven
        With rays of other light,
A spell, a power untroven
        Of my more clear delight,
I faint, I fade, I seem
Myself to be my dream.

And if this be not so,
        Oh, God, make it now be!
Let me not find more woe
        Because I so dreamed Thee!
Let aught for which I pine
Merit being divine.

Let this resemble heaven
        And be my home for e'er,
Even if for e'er mean living
        But this hour really fair.
An hour in God shall be
Enough eternity.

One day, Time having ceased,
        Our lives shall meet again,
From Place and Name released.
        Only that shall remain
Of each of us that may
Seem natural to that Day.

There we will newly love,
        Wondering at the old mood
With which love did us move,
        When pain and solitude
Were what each soul had got
For its contingent lot.

There, heaven being between us
        And touch a real thing,
The texture luminous
        Of our true lives will bring
God into our love like breath.
Nowhere will there be death.

The need to suffer and sigh,
        The inevitable cares,
The awaiting and the cry
        That goes from joy to tears -
These have no need to be
In love's eternity.

The hours shall make our love
        Grow younger, not more old.
Some trick of time shall move
        Wont even to truer gold,
Regret shall not be aught
Possible there to thought.

That region light‑suspended
        Under truer blue skies
Shall let our souls feel blended,
        Yet be true unities.
Nought shall have power to fret
Our hearts to tire of it.

A golden land where God
        Stayed a Day of His Time,
Not as the world, where not
        A moment did he abide,
And where His passing left
The sense of aught bereft.

My heart, that thinks of this,
        Pines, for it is nowhere,
And she that meets my bliss
        With her new old love there -
She is unreal as all
That to this verse I call.

Yet who knows? Perhaps this
        Is not wishing, but seeing.
Perhaps this love, this bliss,
        This conscious glad not‑being
Is some reality
Through fancy seen by me.

Perhaps it casts a spell
        From where it can be found.
What is impossible?
        Where is God's bourne and bound?
Why, if I dream this, may
Not this be mine one day?

Who knows what our dreams are?
        Who knows all that God makes?
Perhaps life doth but mar
        The immediate truth that takes
Its beauty from being dreamed.
Nothing eter merely seemed.

Somewhere where God is nearer
        These things are een now true.
Oh, let me be no fearer
        That this may not be so!
All is more strange than that
Small glimpse of it we get.

Mine eyes are wild with joy
        Because I have these thoughts.
They cannot tire nor cloy
        Because God ever allots
To each high thing the power
To weigh not on its hour.

My flower garden is
        Full of new flowers now.
My lips are kissed by bliss
        Because I know not how.
My heart fails and I swim
Within a luminous rim.

A halo of hope comes round
        My soul. I am that child
That cries: Lo! I have found
        This flower strange and wild.
The unknown flower I have
Grew on my dead dreams' grave.

A trembling sense of being
        More than my sense can hold,
A bird of feeling seeing
        The great, earth‑hidden gold
Of the approaching dawn,
A breath, a light, a swoon,

A presence interwoven
        With rays of other light,
A spell, a power untroven
        Of my more clear delight,
I faint, I fade, I seem
Myself to be my dream.

And if this be not so,
        Oh, God, make it now be!
Let me not find more woe
        Because I so dreamed Thee!
Let aught for which I pine
Merit being divine.

Let this resemble heaven
        And be my home for e'er,
Even if for e'er mean living
        But this hour really fair.
An hour in God shall be
Enough eternity.

Mas que grande disparate
É o que penso e o que sinto.
Meu coração bate, bate
E se sonho muito, minto.

Sorrow no more for the faded rose,
Nor of the yellow lily despair.
These, as we see them, are but their shows.
They are elsewhere.

Tis but their shadow lives in our light.
As we see them (...)
They live more truly in our delight
Than in their forms.

The beauty they had was never lost,
It moved away
From the present hour and the form once tossed
Into space and day.

But the undying essence of the (...)

The rose that faded from yesterday
Is where yesterday is.
I shall have again the flower and the day,
The self and the bliss.

Sorrow no more for the faded rose,
Nor of the yellow lily despair.
These, as we see them, are but their shows.
They are elsewhere.

Tis but their shadow lives in our light.
As we see them (...)
They live more truly in our delight
Than in their forms.

The beauty they had was never lost,
It moved away
From the present hour and the form once tossed
Into space and day.

But the undying essence of the (...)

The rose that faded from yesterday
Is where yesterday is.
I shall have again the flower and the day,
The self and the bliss.

Tenho ainda na lembrança
Como uma coisa que vejo,
O quando inda eras criança.
Nunca mais me dás um beijo!

Tenho ainda na lembrança
Como uma coisa que vejo,
O quando inda eras criança.
Nunca mais me dás um beijo!

Aquela que tinha pobre
A única saia que tinha,
Por muitas roupas que dobre
Nunca será mais rainha.

Aquela que tinha pobre
A única saia que tinha,
Por muitas roupas que dobre
Nunca será mais rainha.

Here in this wilderness
        Each tree and stone fills me
        With the sadness of a great glee.
God in His altogetherness
        Is whole‑part of each stone and tree.

An inner outward seeingness
        Makes my clear self unknown.
        (O Godfully alone!)
God in His overbeingness
        Survives His death each tree and every stone

Ay, in the barkness and clodfulness
        Of tree and sand and stone
        God is only His Own,
God in all His godfulness,
        Whose concrete soul's each thing's abstraction.

Se vais de vestido novo
O teu próprio andar o diz,
E ao passar por entre o povo
Até teu corpo é feliz.

Seguro assento na coluna firme
        Dos versos em que fico.
Aquele agudo interno movimento
         Por quem os fiz pensados
Passa, e eu, outro já que o factor deles,
         Póstumo  substituo-me.
Chegada a hora, eu próprio serei todo
         Menos que essas palavras
E papel, ou papiro escrito e morto
        Será mais eu que eu mesmo.

A obra imortal excede o autor da obra;
        E é menos dono dela
Quem a fez do que o tempo em que perdura.
         Morre a obra a vida nossa.
Durar, sentir, só os altos deuses unem.
         Nós não somos inteiros.
Assim os deuses esta nossa regem
         Mortal e imortal  vida;
Assim o Fado rege que assim rejam.
         Mas se assim é, é assim.

Seguro assento na coluna firme
        Dos versos em que fico.
Aquele agudo interno movimento
         Por quem os fiz pensados
Passa, e eu, outro já que o factor deles,
         Póstumo  substituo-me.
Chegada a hora, eu próprio serei todo
         Menos que essas palavras
E papel, ou papiro escrito e morto
        Será mais eu que eu mesmo.

A obra imortal excede o autor da obra;
        E é menos dono dela
Quem a fez do que o tempo em que perdura.
         Morre a obra a vida nossa.
Durar, sentir, só os altos deuses unem.
         Nós não somos inteiros.
Assim os deuses esta nossa regem
         Mortal e imortal  vida;
Assim o Fado rege que assim rejam.
         Mas se assim é, é assim.

Seguro assento na coluna firme
        Dos versos em que fico.
Aquele agudo interno movimento
         Por quem os fiz pensados
Passa, e eu, outro já que o factor deles,
         Póstumo  substituo-me.
Chegada a hora, eu próprio serei todo
         Menos que essas palavras
E papel, ou papiro escrito e morto
        Será mais eu que eu mesmo.

A obra imortal excede o autor da obra;
        E é menos dono dela
Quem a fez do que o tempo em que perdura.
         Morre a obra a vida nossa.
Durar, sentir, só os altos deuses unem.
         Nós não somos inteiros.
Assim os deuses esta nossa regem
         Mortal e imortal  vida;
Assim o Fado rege que assim rejam.
         Mas se assim é, é assim.

Seguro assento na coluna firme
        Dos versos em que fico.
Aquele agudo interno movimento
         Por quem os fiz pensados
Passa, e eu, outro já que o factor deles,
         Póstumo  substituo-me.
Chegada a hora, eu próprio serei todo
         Menos que essas palavras
E papel, ou papiro escrito e morto
        Será mais eu que eu mesmo.

A obra imortal excede o autor da obra;
        E é menos dono dela
Quem a fez do que o tempo em que perdura.
         Morre a obra a vida nossa.
Durar, sentir, só os altos deuses unem.
         Nós não somos inteiros.
Assim os deuses esta nossa regem
         Mortal e imortal  vida;
Assim o Fado rege que assim rejam.
         Mas se assim é, é assim.

Não se preocupem comigo: também tenho a verdade.
Tenho-a a sair da algibeira como um prestidigitador.
Também pertenço...
Ninguém conclui sem mim, é claro,
E estar triste é ter ideias destas.
Ó meu capricho entre terraços aristocráticos,
Comes açorda em mangas de camisa no meu coração.