Natureza e Elementos

From the beach and from the billow
        Rapturously loud,
From the zephyr that doth pillow
        All his softness on a cloud;
From the murmur of the river,
From the leaves that rustle ever,
        Joyously we come.

We are bright and we are many
        As the early drops of dew,
And we come to little Fanny
        As the day to you;
From the keenness of the mountain,
From the sparkle of the fountain,
        Joyously we come.

From the hill and from the valley,
        From the mountain and the vale;
From the evening melancholy
Where all hath a tale;
        From the sweetness of the meadow,
From the coolness of the shadow,
        Joyously we come.

ln the sadness of the willow,
        In the homely nest
We have dwelt and had a pillow
        In the poet's breast;
And from all things dimly moving
Human souls to bliss and loving
        Joyously we come.

From the beach and from the billow
        Rapturously loud,
From the zephyr that doth pillow
        All his softness on a cloud;
From the murmur of the river,
From the leaves that rustle ever,
        Joyously we come.

We are bright and we are many
        As the early drops of dew,
And we come to little Fanny
        As the day to you;
From the keenness of the mountain,
From the sparkle of the fountain,
        Joyously we come.

From the hill and from the valley,
        From the mountain and the vale;
From the evening melancholy
Where all hath a tale;
        From the sweetness of the meadow,
From the coolness of the shadow,
        Joyously we come.

ln the sadness of the willow,
        In the homely nest
We have dwelt and had a pillow
        In the poet's breast;
And from all things dimly moving
Human souls to bliss and loving
        Joyously we come.

Há um país imenso mais real
Do que a vida que o mundo mostra ter
Mais do que a Natureza natural
À verdade tremendo de viver.

Sob um céu uno e plácido e normal
Onde nada se mostra haver ou ser
Onde nem vento geme, nem fatal
A ideia de uma nuvem se faz crer,

Jaz — uma terra não — não um solo
Mas estranha, gelando em desconsolo
A alma que vê esse pais sem véu,

Hirtamente silente nos espaços
Uma floresta de escarnados braços
Inutilmente erguidos para o céu.

São já onze horas da noite.
Porque te não vais deitar?
Se de nada serve ver-te,
Mais vale não te fitar.

Tome lá, minha menina,
O ramalhete que fiz.
Cada flor é pequenina,
Mas tudo junto é feliz.

Oh for a less meaningless horizon than the land and the sea!
Oh for a rest from places and a lapse from the sense of times!
Waves, ever waves, to and fro … Ever waves roll, and we
What do we wait, what do we seek, what do we pause for and flee?
What in us lusts for more round us than the strech of minutes and climes?

Ah, and no bark to bear us towards Impossible, and that a real place,
An attainable place, full of the depths and rests of the Unattainable!
But ever the sea, the sea, like the passing of many a face...
Ever the sea, and the sea runs a restless and half-hearted race
Towards not the shore, nor the land, but what? Who can measure or tell?

No ship to bear us homeward, past earth and sea and the sky!
None to spread sails to a breeze blowing but not with a whither!
And ever, like a lost meaning, the sea never passing by,
Ever the measurable sea, sad as a formless cry,
And the most hearts can be is (to) be two and sorrow together!

To-morrow will tire us of all! But we lack heart to be tired indeed
The purpose our souls came for is lost and never stared at...
Let us at least by the shore construe our aches for a deed
Into a meaningless ache and a desolate and purposeless greed...
Become we one with the sea's lost purpose and dream and wish nothing
                                                                                                but that...

Para quê complicar inutilmente,
Pensando, o que impensado existe? Nascem
        Ervas sem razão dada —
Para elas olhos, não razões, tenhamos.
Como através de um rio as contemplemos.

1.
Little flower that wert on the hill,
Where art thou to-day?
Thou that saw'st thyself in the rill
Art thou gone away?
Ah, now I see that thou art dead
And that thy charm from us is fled.

Leve vem a onda leve
Que se estende a adormecer,
Breve vem a onda breve
Que nos ensina a esquecer.

Flores amo, não busco. Se aparecem
Me agrado ledo, que há em buscar prazeres
        O desprazer da busca.
A vida seja como o sol, que é dado,
Nem arranquemos flores, que, arrancadas
        Não são nossas, mas mortas.

The day is glad and golden.
Over the sunhit beach
The waves do gladly embolden
Their crisp and clinging reach.

Would I were one as they
With the natural hour,
With the wide sunlit day
And the ancient sea's power.

I would not be here weeping
That I am not aught else,
My waking would be a sleeping
Like this of the sea swells

Not like an outcast from
A home I never knew
Would I be pining for home,
……

Not like a tossed sea‑weed
Between the wave and the wave,
And restless with a mute greed
For something I cannot have.

Something I cannot een dream,
Some spent life I know not...
Oh how fair would nature seem
Were it not for thought!

Dark is the golden day
Unto mine eyes that stare
Brightness and joy away
From sky and shore and here.

Dead is the changing sea,
The wind a monotone,
Oh ever to be he
That never is but alone,

I cannot dream of heaven,
Nor create one in the hour...
Pass, day, and ask not even
For my grateful eyes' dower...

I feel pale and I shiver.
        What power of the moonlight
Tremulous under the river
        Thus pains me with delight?

What spell told by the moon
        Unlooses all my soul?
O speak to me! I swoon!
        I fade from life's control!

I am a far spirit, e'en
        In the felt place of me.
O river too serene
        For my tranquillity!

O ache somehow of living!
        O sorrow for something!
O moon‑pain the sense‑giving
        That I am vainly king

In some spell‑bound realm mute,
        In a lunar land lone!
O ache as of a dying flute
        When we would have't play on!

I feel pale and I shiver.
        What power of the moonlight
Tremulous under the river
        Thus pains me with delight?

What spell told by the moon
        Unlooses all my soul?
O speak to me! I swoon!
        I fade from life's control!

I am a far spirit, e'en
        In the felt place of me.
O river too serene
        For my tranquillity!

O ache somehow of living!
        O sorrow for something!
O moon‑pain the sense‑giving
        That I am vainly king

In some spell‑bound realm mute,
        In a lunar land lone!
O ache as of a dying flute
        When we would have't play on!

Quatro vezes mudou a estação falsa
No falso ano, no imutável curso
        Do tempo consequente;
Ao verde segue o seco, e ao seco o verde;
E não sabe ninguém qual é o primeiro,
        Nem o último, e acabam.

I

All things that shine are God's eyes.
        All things that move are God's speech.
        Every thing has all to teach
To our awakening surmise.

Green are God's thoughts when they are leaves,
        Yellow when sunflowers they are.
        Yet they shine separate and far
From the hands wherewith God weaves.

Light are my steps on the ground
        Yet they do echo through space,
        Through terrible abysses that face
God at the side never found.

II

My dreams are angels' kisses.
Lightly they touch my heart,
Tip‑toe shadow caresses.
They are my Godder part.

There is a flower in my hand.
It is not found in fields.
God looks and can understand,
For He is the dreamer who builds.

He knows how dreams are set up,
He knows how flowers are made glad.
Look: I hold up my cup
And God gives me wine to be mad.

I

All things that shine are God's eyes.
        All things that move are God's speech.
        Every thing has all to teach
To our awakening surmise.

Green are God's thoughts when they are leaves,
        Yellow when sunflowers they are.
        Yet they shine separate and far
From the hands wherewith God weaves.

Light are my steps on the ground
        Yet they do echo through space,
        Through terrible abysses that face
God at the side never found.

II

My dreams are angels' kisses.
Lightly they touch my heart,
Tip‑toe shadow caresses.
They are my Godder part.

There is a flower in my hand.
It is not found in fields.
God looks and can understand,
For He is the dreamer who builds.

He knows how dreams are set up,
He knows how flowers are made glad.
Look: I hold up my cup
And God gives me wine to be mad.

Ininterrupto e unido guia o teu curso
Lídia, e sereno para o mar distante.
        Teus manes não to param.
        Interrompem-to apenas.
Mas conta tu as tuas próprias horas,
À tua espera dá-te incerta Naiade
        Que a porta te não está
        Tua segunda vida...
Condescendente p'ra contigo própria,
Deixa aos certos Letes de fugir
        Vive com a verdade
        No instante dos demónios
Que alhures a saber preso com deles
O céu do Fado, gozam a delícia
        Altiva de viverem
        Onde guardam suas vidas.

No grande espaço de não haver nada
Que a noite finge, brilham mal os astros.
        Não há lua, e ainda bem.
Neste momento, Lídia, considero
Tudo, e um frio que não há me entra
        Na alma. Não existes.

«Das flores que há pelo campo
O rosmaninho é rei...»
É uma velha cantiga...
Bem sei, meu Deus, bem o sei.

Beside a summer's day
        I lay me down and dreamed.
The light from far away
        In my withinned self gleamed,
An unreal true glow,
Spiritually somehow.

I saw the inner side
        Of summer, earth and morn.
I heard the rivers glide
        From Within. l was borne
To see, through mysteries,
How God everything is.

The motes of sun that dance
        Are audibly whispered.
All is an utterance.
        The sight may hear. I shed
Vision of things as things.
My thoughts are angels' wings.

The corpses of known hours
        In barks unsteered and left
Float, covered with mute flowers,
        Down my dream that is cleft
In banks of mystery ­-
This summer day and I.

And something like a greed
        And yet unlike a wish,
The power to have a need
        Which doth not needing reach,
But is dissolved again
Ere its sad joy reach pain,

A shadowy lightness woven
        Of the day and of me,
Like sparkling water driven
        Never but where we see,
A gap, a pause, a dim
Looking over things' rim,

Starts like a sudden flute
        Pastoral with tuneless notes
Out of the unseen root
        Of all my being denotes,
Spreads, till I feel it not,
O'er my lost sense of thought.

And lo! I am another.
        My senses taste not‑mine.
A hand my sight doth smother
        To a blind sight divine.
I am a lost tune, a mood
Of the finger‑tips of God.

So, like a child‑king crowned,
        I feel new with fear‑pride.
I am robed with sky and ground.
        My inmost soul's outside
Is sunlit seas and lands.
My dreams are seraphs' hands.

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.

O ar do campo vem brando,
Faz sono haver esse ar.
Já não sei se estou sonhando
Nem de que serve sonhar.

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.

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.