di Geoffrey Hill
traduzione di Marco Fazzini
For the Unfallen , 1959
The Guardians
The young, having risen early, had gone,
Some with excursions beyond the bay-mouth,
Some toward lakes, a fragile reflected sun.
Thunder-heads drift, awkwardly, from the south;
The old watch them. They have watched the safe
Packed harbours topple under sudden gales,
Great tides irrupt, yachts burn at the wharf
That on clean seas pitched their effective sails.
Thereare silences. These, too, they endure:
Soft comings-on; soft...
