suddenly evening

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

ED È SUBITO SERA
Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
trafitto da un raggio di sole:
ed è subito sera.

--Salvatore Quasimodo

AND IT'S SUDDENLY EVENING

Each of us stands alone at the heart of the earth
pierced by a ray of sunlight:
and it's suddenly evening.

(my translation)

(no subject)

[silverflurry.livejournal.com]

Cassius Hueffer

They have chiseled on my stone the words:
'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man.'
Those who knew me smile
As they read this empty rhetoric.
My epitaph should have been:
'Life was not gentle to him,
And the elements so mixed in him
That he made warfare on life,
In the which he was slain.'
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Graven by a fool!
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Masters, Edgar Lee. 1915. From Spoon River Anthology.