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[penguinboy.livejournal.com]

Fragment from a poem by Sappho (translated by Guy Davenport):

Dusk and western star,
You gather
What glittering sunrise
Scattered far,
The ewe to fold,
Kid and nanny home,
But the daughter
You send wandering
From her mother.

Same fragment, translated by Anne Carson:

Evening
you gather back
all that dazzling dawn has put asunder:
you gather a lamb
gather a kid
gather a child to its mother.

Comments

[paperwings86.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Anne's got it down so much better

[evil-owl.livejournal.com]

do you know which is closer to the original? they seem to end so differently...

[penguinboy.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't know which is more accurate either. It does seem odd that they're so radically different.