El valle intranquilo
Hubo un tiempo en que el valle sonreía,
silencioso, aunque nadie allí vivía;
su gente había marchado hacia la guerra
confiando el cuidado de esa sierra,
por la noche, a la mirada fiel
de las estrellas desde su azul cuartel
y de día, a los rojos resplandores
del sol que dormitaba entre las flores.
Mas ahora para todo visitante
el valle triste es inquieto e inquietante.
Nada allí se detiene un solo instante...
nada salvo el aire que se cierne
sobre la soledad mágica y perenne.
¡Ah, ningún viento agita los ramajes
que palpitan como el glacial oleaje
en torno a las Hébridas salvajes!
¡Ah, ningún viento empuja el furtivo
manto de nubes que, sin respiro,
surcan durante el día el cielo esquivo
sobre las violetas allí esparcidas
como ojos humanos de mil medidas...!
sobre las ondeantes azucenas
que lloran junto a las tumbas ajenas!
Ondean: y en sus pétalos más tiernos
se juntan gotas de rocío sempiterno.
Lloran: y por sus tallos claudicantes
bajan perennes lágrimas como diamantes.
Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, 1809- Baltimore, 1849
versión de Andrés Ehrenhaus
imagen de Sylvia Chan, Desolace Veritum en Artslant
The Valley of Unrest
Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lazily lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless-
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye-
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave:- from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
They weep:- from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lazily lay.
Now each visitor shall confess
The sad valley's restlessness.
Nothing there is motionless-
Nothing save the airs that brood
Over the magic solitude.
Ah, by no wind are stirred those trees
That palpitate like the chill seas
Around the misty Hebrides!
Ah, by no wind those clouds are driven
That rustle through the unquiet Heaven
Uneasily, from morn till even,
Over the violets there that lie
In myriad types of the human eye-
Over the lilies there that wave
And weep above a nameless grave!
They wave:- from out their fragrant tops
Eternal dews come down in drops.
They weep:- from off their delicate stems
Perennial tears descend in gems.
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