by
Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
On a March day
Language: English
Available translation(s): FRE
Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind
That shakes the naked shadows on the ground,
Making a key-board of the earth to strike
From clattering tree and hedge a separate sound,
Bear witness for me that I loved my life,
All things that hurt me and all things that healed,
And that I swore it this day in March,
Here at the edge of this new-broken field.
You only knew me, tell them I was glad
For every hour since my hour of birth,
And that I ceased to fear, as once I feared,
The last complete reunion with the earth.
Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Dark of The Moon, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926, page 90.
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- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Par un jour de marche", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Par un jour de marche
Language: French (Français)  after the English
Ici, malgré ce vent triomphant
Qui agite sur le sol les ombres nues,
Faisant de la terre un clavier à jouer
Un son différent des arbres et des haies s'entrechoquant,
Sois-moi témoin que j'ai aimé ma vie,
Toutes les choses qui m'ont blessée et qui m'ont guérie,
Et cela je le jure en ce jour de mai
Ici au bord de ce terrain récemment brisé.
Toi seul me connaissais, dis-leur que j'étais heureuse
À chaque instant depuis l'heure de ma naissance,
Et que j'ai cessé de craindre dès que je craignis,
La réunion finale et complète avec la terre.
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