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Translation of Paul Verlaine's Sonnet: Dernier Espoir ( Last Hope)
by T. Wignesan → (All Poetry by T. Wignesan)
Friday, October 2, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Does one dare hope even after death while still alive being almost dead ?


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The Last Hope, Translation of Paul Verlaine's sonnet: Dernier espoir

There stands a tree in the cemetery
Thrusting itself up in total freedom,
By no means the fruit of bereavement –
Spreading itself out on stone unobtrusively.

In this tree, be it summer or winter,
A bird alights to trill clearly
It’s sad song of such fidelity.
This tree and this bird do us bind together :

You the object of my thoughts, I the absence
That time takes stock of in evanescence…
Ah ! To live again propped up against your knees !

Ah ! To be alive again ! But stay yet awhile, my lover,
Let not the void be my chilling victor…
At the least, say : I live but in your intimate core ?

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2013
 

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 Reviews of "Translation of Paul Verlaine's Sonnet: Dernier Espoir ( Last Hope)"
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 3, 2020
A sad commentary on the shortness of even the most fidelity between lovers. But the bird in the tree continue on as a symbol of that fidelity, on and on.

Ron


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