Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Song of the Church Bells by Pier Paolo Pasolini

When evening dips inside water fountains
my town disappears among muted hues.


From far away I remember frogs croaking,
the moonlight, the cricket's sad cries.


The fields devour the Vespers' church bells
but I am dead to the sound of those bells.


Stranger, don't fear my tender return
across mountains, I am the spirit of love


coming back home from faraway shores.

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