Capitolo 32
There was no anchor, nothing asked, any suggestion to tell him
Of secret idols carved in secret rooms
From all you did and it said.
Nothing was done, up to that she finally knew her.
Nothing was known, you cultivate, somehow, she was dead.
How did it die?--You say, she died because of poison.
Simple and rapid. It is a lot for being reformed.
You didn't see his/her footsteps
Then a lot of thousand turned by light to the obscurity,
Making a break so a lot of times in front of his/her glass;
You didn't see how much it calculates her it expedited
To tilt himself/herself/themselves from the certain windows, vainly hoping,
Impassioned still for the beauty, remembered spring.
You didn't know how much time her music clung,
You didn't feel her/it sing.
It did her, then ago the choice, and it bravely goes out
From sound to make to keep silent--closes, her, those windows?
Or it was it true, instead,
That obscurity moved,--for once,--and so it possessed her/it? . . .
We will never know, you say, for her it is dead.
VII. PORCELAIN
You see that porcelain varied there in the window--
Bases and soup-dish done with rosebuds you pink and pale,
And the small violets and garlands of ivy?
See how the model grabs on to the edges that sparkle!
They is jobs of art--minutely seen and felt,
Every petal devotedly done. It is it failure
Does to spend Your blood like this?
Study them. . . You will see there, in the porcelain,
If You enough fixed hard, a kind to swim
Of lights and shades, ghosts inside a crystal--
My unfolding of brain! There you will see me sitting
Day after day, near to a certain window,
Sometimes, looking down for seeing the people. . .
My wife sometimes comes to speak there to me. . .
Sometimes the cat grey slap his/her tail around me. . .
Swimming of gilded goldfish in a bowl, tipsy in light of the sun,
You dilate to a sumptuous ransom, hit boils delicate,
Is drowsy among dark weeds of green. In the rainy days,
You will see a light shedding of gasoline-light behind me--
A circle of eye-shade my forehead. There I sit,