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Re: Here's another translation ...
Date:
2004-06-21 08:52 pm (UTC)
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Oh, these translations are so much fun! I want to play, too.
"The rain falls softly upon the town." -Arthur Rimbaud
Tears fall in my heart
As rain falls on the town,
Whence comes this languor
That's pervading my heart?
O sweet sound of the rain
On the earth and rooftops!
For a self-weary heart,
O the song of the rain!
It weeps without reason,
This self-sickened heart.
What! no betrayal?
It mourns without reason.
The worst of the pain
Is not knowing why,
With no love and no hatred,
My heart feels so much pain!
-Paul Verlaine
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Re: Here's another translation ...
Date: 2004-06-21 08:52 pm (UTC)"The rain falls softly upon the town." -Arthur Rimbaud
Tears fall in my heart
As rain falls on the town,
Whence comes this languor
That's pervading my heart?
O sweet sound of the rain
On the earth and rooftops!
For a self-weary heart,
O the song of the rain!
It weeps without reason,
This self-sickened heart.
What! no betrayal?
It mourns without reason.
The worst of the pain
Is not knowing why,
With no love and no hatred,
My heart feels so much pain!
-Paul Verlaine