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May 05, 2008

Entirely Green

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(Quelque Parfum)
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

Malgré le ciel encore bas
et cet air qui chancelle,
quelque chose nouvelle
flotte vers l'odorat.

Quelque parfum tout vert
discrètement se dégage.
Un plaisir déménage:
le printemps est ouvert.

(Some Perfume)
- Rainer Maria Rilke -

Despite the sky, still low,
and the hesitant air,
something new
floats into scent.

Some perfume, entirely green,
frees itself discreetly.
A pleasure begins to move;
spring is open.

French text from The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Graywolf Press, 1986. Electronic text via: http://www.rilke.de/gedichte/ebauches_51.htm

 

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