European Elegies/Autumn (1)/Animae rerum
2.ANIMAE RERUM
As I survey the landscape's shadowy gloom
And feel a deepening night within my heart,
My anguish seems dark nature's counterpart
And nature seems my misery to assume.
And feel a deepening night within my heart,
My anguish seems dark nature's counterpart
And nature seems my misery to assume.
I watch the driving rain this sombre eve
And feel my eyes aflood with bitter tears,
Until I know not, all confused with fears,
Whether I weep from grief, or, weeping, grieve.
And feel my eyes aflood with bitter tears,
Until I know not, all confused with fears,
Whether I weep from grief, or, weeping, grieve.
As melancholy shades the valley claim
In murky dark, and o'er all outlines roll,
My unforgetting lips call one dear name—
In murky dark, and o'er all outlines roll,
My unforgetting lips call one dear name—
And in that tortured silence infinite
I know not if the darkness blots my soul
Or if my Stygian soul makes black the night.
I know not if the darkness blots my soul
Or if my Stygian soul makes black the night.
From the Spanish of Francisco Villaespesa.