by
Léon-Paul Fargue (1876 - 1947)
Rêves
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Un enfant court
Autour des marbres...
Une voix sourd
Des hauts parages...
Les yeux si graves
De ceux qui t'aiment
Songent et passent
Entre les arbres...
Aux grandes orgues
De quelque gare
Gronde la vague
Des vieux départs...
Dans un vieux rêve
Au pays vague
Des choses brèves
Qui meurent sages...
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Dreams", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 51
Dreams
Language: English  after the French (Français)
A short child
Playing about the marbles...
A muffled voice
Of someone highly placed...
Such serious eyes
Of those who love you
Thinking and passing
Among the trees...
From the great organs
Of any station
Rumbling wave1
Of old departures...
In an old dream
In the indistinctness1 of country landscape
Of the brief things
That die wiser...
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1 vague - vagueness, wave, wavy-texteure obscuring clear outlines; this is Symbolist poetry, so all adjectives (esp. regarding color and sound) should have multiple meanings
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Word count: 57