by
Stéphen Liégeard (1830 - 1925)
L'hiver
Language: French (Français)
Le vent siffle… au dehors étincelle le givre…
Sous le toit verglacé l’âtre flambe, au dedans.
Près de la cendre chaude, ils sont heureux de vivre:
La flamme, à leurs vieux fronts, met ses reflèts ardents.
Assise, elle a saisi d’une main le beau livre
Où la fée apparaît vers l’ogre aux longues dents;
Puis, de l’autre, attirant les babys qu’elle enivre,
Elle en fait un rempart aux petits imprudents.
Lui, l’aïeul, est debout, dans sa bonté charmante:
Comme jadis, au bois, il berçait son amante,
Il berce l’ange rose endormi sur ses bras;
Et tous les deux, émus d’une même pensée,
Croyant voir luire entre eux l’heure à jamais passée,
Ils sentent dans leurs coeurs se fondre les frimas!
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- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Winter", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 120
Winter
Language: English after the French (Français)
The wind whistles… outside sparkles the frost…
Under the icy roof the hearth blazes inside.
Near the hot ashes they are happy to [be alive]:
The flame, [on] their old faces, [casts] its fiery reflections.
Seated, she grabbed with one hand the lovely book
Where the fairy appears to the ogre with long teeth;
Then, with the other, luring the babies that she intoxicates,
It [is] in fact a shield against the little imprudent ones.
Him, the grandfather, is standing, in his charming goodness:
As before, in the woods, he cradled his lover,
He cradles the sleeping pink angel in his arms;
And both of them, moved by [the] same thought,
Believing to see gleaming between them the hour forever passed,
They feel in their hearts [the winter] melting!
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