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Eminescu, Mihai: To the star (La steaua in English)

Portre of Eminescu, Mihai

La steaua (Romanian)

La steaua care-a răsărit
E-o cale-atît de lungă,
Că mii de ani i-au trebuit
Luminii să ne-ajungă.

Poate de mult s-a stins în drum
În depărtări albastre,
Iar raza ei abia acum
Luci vederii noastre.

Icoana stelei ce-a murit
Încet pe cer se suie;
Era pe cînd nu s-a zărit,
Azi o vedem şi nu e.

Tot astfel cînd al nostru dor
Pieri în noapte-adîncă,
Lumina stinsului amor
Ne urmăreşte încă.



Source of the quotationhttp://ro.wikisource.org

To the star (English)

So far it is athwart the blue
To where yon star appears,
That for its light to reach our view
Has needed thousand years.

Maybe those ages gone it shed
Its glow, then languished in the skies,
Yet only now its rays have sped
Their journey to our eyes.

The icon of the star that died
Slowly the vault ascended;
Time was ere it could first be spied,
We see now what is ended.


So is it when our love's aspire
Is hid beneath night's bowl,
The gleam of its extinguished fire
Enkindles yet our soul.



Publisherhttp://www.mihaieminescu.ro

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