WILD POEMS ( TRANSLATED FROM J.R.Jimenez)

POEMAS AGRESTES  (1910-11)

BY Juan Ramón Jimenez

(Translated by M.H.)

… And I will go, and birds will rest singing

And my orchard will remain,

with its green trees and its white pit.

Alll afternoons, the sky is blue and calm

And they will ring, as they are doing  today

Yes, the bells of the bellfry.

They will die, the ones who love me

And the village will renew every year

And in that corner of my flowery White orchard

My soul will wander ……….nostalgic.

…………And I will go, and I will be alone,

No home, no green tree, no white pit

No blue and calm sky

                        And the birds will remain singing…………….