Cristina Ocampo
La tigre assenza
Ahi che la Tigre,
la tigre Assenza,
o amati,
ha tutto divorato
di questo volto rivolto
a voi! La bocca sola
pura
prega ancora
voi: di pregare ancora
perché la Tigre,
la Tigre Assenza,
o amati,
non divori la bocca
e la preghiera…
La neve era sospesa tra la notte e le strade
Come il destino tra la mano e il fiore.
(…)
(ora tutta la vita è nel mio sguardo,
stella su te, sul mondo che il tuo passo richiude).
William Blake
The Tiger
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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