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Maeterlinck, Maurice: Attente

Portre of Maeterlinck, Maurice

Attente (French)

Mon âme a joint ses mains étranges

À l'horizon de mes regards ;

Exaucez mes rêves épars

Entre les lèvres de vos anges!

 

En attendant sous mes yeux las,

Et sa bouche ouverte aux prières

Éteintes entre mes paupières

Et dont les lys n'éclosent pas ;

 

Elle apaise au fond de mes songes,

Ses seins effeuillés sous mes cils,

Et ses yeux clignent aux périls

Éveillés au fil des mensonges.



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Vigil (English)

My soul her unused hands to pray

Folds, that hide the world away:

Lord, my broken dreams complete,

That Thine angels' lips repeat.

 

While beneath my wearied eyes

She breathes the prayers that in her rise--

Prayers that find my lids a tomb,

And whose lilies may not bloom:

 

While in dreams her barren breast

Hushes 'neath my gaze to rest--

Still her eyes from perils cower,

Such as wake by falsehood's power.



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