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Bernos de Gasztold, Carmen: Prière du petit poisson rouge

Portre of Bernos de Gasztold, Carmen

Prière du petit poisson rouge (French)

Mon Dieu,
je tourne sans fin
autour de ce rocher transparent et dur
sans pouvoir trouver d'issue!
Seigneur,
delivrez-moi de l'etroitesse de cette eau
et de ces choses terrifiantes que je vois au travers!
Rendez-moi la liberte de Vos torrents
et de Vos sources limpides.
Faites que je ne sois plus ce petit poisson rouge
dans sa prison de verre,
mais un etincelle vivante
dans la douceur de Vos joncs...
Ainsi soit-il!



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Source of the quotationhttp://media.smithsonianfolkways.org

The prayer of the goldfish (English)

O God,
forever I turn
in this hard crystal, so transparent,
yet I can find no way out.
Lord,
deliver me from the cramp of this water
and these terrifying things I see through it.
Put me back in the play of Your torrents,
in Your limpid springs.
Let me no longer be a little goldfish
in its prison of glass,
but a living spark
in the gentleness of Your reeds.
Amen.



Uploaded byP. T.
Source of the quotationhttp://media.smithsonianfolkways.org

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