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I, The Ant
"I am the little ant that seems
to die in the evening at moonrise
when the singular nature of the soul
and its conniving horizons wanly bewitch
me with their solitude.
Amid the circumscribed daily afflictions
in the empty circle of the hidden mountains
when I go through dry flatlands
to my shelter, wearing myself with the heavy
seed of my sterile hope,
you with whom I live together
know the black body that fetches you bread.
But the day has patience for the morrow:
it has the Christianity of an ancient race
that has made me an ant among the slow
and unknown ants who hunger.
Night takes what's left; the world is touched
by lunar seed and the shadow
of my small foot is seen with my body
transformed into the splendor of eternity."
Carlo Betocchi (translated by I. L. Solomon)
"I am the little ant that seems
to die in the evening at moonrise
when the singular nature of the soul
and its conniving horizons wanly bewitch
me with their solitude.
Amid the circumscribed daily afflictions
in the empty circle of the hidden mountains
when I go through dry flatlands
to my shelter, wearing myself with the heavy
seed of my sterile hope,
you with whom I live together
know the black body that fetches you bread.
But the day has patience for the morrow:
it has the Christianity of an ancient race
that has made me an ant among the slow
and unknown ants who hunger.
Night takes what's left; the world is touched
by lunar seed and the shadow
of my small foot is seen with my body
transformed into the splendor of eternity."
Carlo Betocchi (translated by I. L. Solomon)