PORQUE NENHUM DE nóS SE IA IMPORTAR DE MORAR NUMA BIBLIOTECA…

terça-feira, 30 de julho de 2013

"Fragments, on the Muses" de Sifo

 

I

And when you are gone there will be no memory
Of you and no regret. For you do not share
The Pierian roses, but unseen in the house of Hades
You will stray, breathed out, among the ghostly dead.  

II

The Muses have filled my life
With delight.
And when I die I shall not be forgotten.

III

And I say to you someone will remember us
In time to come….

IV

Here now the delicate Graces
And the Muses with beautiful hair…

V

It’s not right, lament in the Muses’ house…
….that for us is not fitting….


VI

Here now, again, Muses, leaving the golden…

VII

Surpassing, like the singer of Lesbos, those elsewhere…

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