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Happy Easter

14/4/2017

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                     A  GAZETA  DO  MIDDLESEX

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                                       HAPPY  EASTER !

                                                              

Escrever sobre o que se passa, tal é o estado do Mundo, não estaria de acordo com a mensagem pascal de esperança renovada, e como a poesia é um porto de abrigo que nunca falha, e para terminar ainda assim numa nota positiva, aqui vai um curto poema de Yeats que parece apropriado para os dias de hoje. (E para o estado de espirito de quem escreve a Gazeta).



                                                             POLITICAS/POLITICS





Como posso eu, com aquela rapariga ali de pé
Fixar a minha atenção

Nas políticas dos Romanos,
Russos ou Espanhóis?
No entanto aqui está um homem viajado
Que sabe sobre o que fala,
E um político que ao mesmo tempo
Leu e reflectiu.
Talvez aquilo que dizem sobre a guerra
e a sua possibilidade seja verdade...
Mas, oh se eu fosse jovem novamente
E pudesse apertá-la nos meus braços !


                                                                    How can I, that girl standing there
                                                                   My attention fix
                                                                   On Roman or on Russian
                                                                   Or on Spanish politics?
                                                                   Yet here's a travelled man that knows
                                                                   What he talks about,
                                                                   And there's a politician
                                                                   That has both read and thought
                                                                   And maybe what they say is true
                                                                   Of war and war's alarms,
                                                                   But O that I were young again
                                                                   And held her in my arms !


                                                                   WB Yeats (1865-1939)




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