BURNING GLASS.

Ancient hours I behold

Under regrets ripening,

And fairer flora spring

From their secrets' azure mould.

Desires blow through my spirit.

O glass upon my desires!

And the withered grass my soul fires,

When breathing memories stir it.

It grows with my thoughts for mould,

And in the blue fleeing fast

I see the griefs of the past

Their flower-petals unfold.

My soul through memories gropes,

Feels the touch of their

Curtaining dead mohair;

And greens with other hopes.

Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell · 第 140 / 232 题