Part of a poem by Walt Whitman, excerpt from Leaves of Grass. This collection resulted in Laforgue have a lasting impact on the latest Belgian Symbolist, verse owes much Claudel and lyricism of Saint-John Perse he is not abroad . On the beach, at night, Stands
a Child With Her father,
Watching the east, The Autumn sky
Up Through the darkness,
While Ravening clouds, The burial clouds, in black masses Spreading,
Lower, sullen and fast, Athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the East,
Ascends, large and calm, the lord-star Jupiter, And nigh
at hand, only has very little Above,
Swim The Delicate Brothers, The Pleiades.
Leaves of Grass , 1855, when first published.
night on the beach,
Keeps a child who, with his father
Look, the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While the clouds, voracious diggers in the profusion of their mass black
piling up fast and sullen in the hollow of a low sky,
the heart of a band ether remained clear to the east, Monte
, calm and stately, Jupiter, the noble planet
And nearby, barely above the paddle
delicate sisters the Pleiades.
approximate translation, S. Labbe, we must admit that the good Walt is not always as clear as his celestial ether.
Photo: Jupiter
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