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Your Voice, Marquise (English)



for Nicole Lemaire d'Agaggio

'O beata solitudo, o sola beatitudo'

(Blessèd solitude, my only bliss)

St Bernard of Clairvaux

 

I loved your voice to distraction, Marquise,

a voice in which the graceful coolness of a gentle wind

mingled with the liquid trembling of wings and colours,

a voice which changed the choir of my words

into a memory that pained me, haunted me.

 

translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges

28.11.07.



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