Saturday, 16 March 2013

A Westerner's feeling by Cesario Verde ...



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"O sentimento de um Ocidental

Nas nossas ruas, ao anoitecer,
ha tal soturnidade, ha tal melancolia
que as sombras, o bulicio, o Tejo, a maresia
despertam-me um desejo absurdo de sofrer  (...)"



"A Westerner's feeling

Throughout our streets, as the evening
brings with it such gloom, such melancholy,
shadows, bustle, the Tagus, the smell of the sea
awakens in me a foolish suffering (...)"









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