by
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
We met as Sparks — Diverging Flints
Language: English
We met as Sparks — Diverging Flints
Sent various — scattered ways —
We parted as the Central Flint
Were cloven with an Adze —
Subsisting on the Light We bore
Before We felt the Dark —
A Flint unto this Day — perhaps —
But for that single Spark.
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Nous nous rencontrâmes comme des...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Nous nous rencontrâmes comme des Étincelles -- des Silex Divergents
Envoyés dans des directions variées -- aux quatre vents --
Nous nous séparâmes comme si le Centre du Silex
Était fendu avec une Herminette --
Subsistant sur la Lumière que Nous portions
Avant que nous ressentions l'Obscurité --
Nous le sûmes par le changement entre lui
Et cette Étincelle éthérée.
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"We met as Sparks" = "Nous nous rencontrâmes comme des Étincelles"
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