European Elegies/Spring/Clouds of silver
70.CLOUDS OF SILVER
Clouds of silver, clouds of silver
Ride and race and soar
On beyond the blue horizon
And return no more.
Ride and race and soar
On beyond the blue horizon
And return no more.
Fair they flash and gleam and glitter,
Laughing in the light,
And behind far golden portals
Vanish from the sight.
Laughing in the light,
And behind far golden portals
Vanish from the sight.
So bright days of perfect pleasure
Pass and disappear,
Leaving the cold hail of sorrow
To its task austere.
Pass and disappear,
Leaving the cold hail of sorrow
To its task austere.
From the Finnish of Lauri Pohjanpää.