AWAKE

Awake!

It is a joy among hibernal hours

To plunge into the pane the hoar-frost flowers;

Behold: the petals glittering on the pane

Open their wings that dream would follow fain.

Awake, and revel in the dawn's pure joys,

And smile upon the time the sun becalms:

In the bright garden, save in dream, no noise

But a long imagined shivering, O palms!

Come, and behold my love, as ever of old,

Make the vast silence flower lit by thy glance,

Glad with its peaceful pinions to enfold

Our passion soothed with rich remembrance.

Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell · 第 69 / 232 题