by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
Translation © by Mercedes Vivas

Silent noon
 (Sung text for setting by R. Vaughan Williams)
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Language: English 
Our translations:  CAT FRE GER SPA
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, -
  The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
  Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms
'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.

All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
  Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge
  Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour glass.

Deep in the sunsearched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: -
  So this winged hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
  When twofold silence was the song of love.

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Language: Spanish (Español)  after the English 
Tus manos yacen abiertas en la larga y fresca hierba, 
las puntas de tus dedos parecen brotar como capullos rosados.
Tus ojos sonríen paz. La pradera reluce y se oscurece 
bajo los cielos algodonosos que se dispersan y agrupan.

Alrededor de nuestro nido, tanto como alcanza la vista, 
hay campos dorados de caltas, con bordes plateados 
donde el antrisco bordea el seto de espino.
El silencio es visible, inmóvil como el reloj de arena.

En lo profundo de los brotes buscados por el sol, 
la libélula cuelga como un hilo azul deshilachado del cielo.
De igual modo, esta hora suspendida cae sobre nosotros. 
¡Oh! Aferrémonos a nuestros corazones, para recibir esta herencia sin muerte,
esta hora silenciosa, en compañía cercana, 
cuando el silencio de los dos era la canción del amor.

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