If faith, the calm of a gaze
like a nimbus, if spaces of serene
hours I wonder, while here I linger
on the ridge that my steps support,
if deprecating I go the chains
and the age-old spell and filter and dart
wherefore for within the most occult veins
in opposite torments I chill and burn,
your intimate fires and foolish waters
of fervors and frosts I warn, O hills
in so great a part mirrors conform to me.
Ah, tamed as you are the bitter nature,
equal to yours may heaven give me fortune
and in harmonies even may I compose myself.
From Notification of presence on the Euganean Hills,
in IX Eclogues,1962
From Notification of presence on the Euganean Hills,
in IX Eclogues,1962
Andrea Zanzotto
Birth: Oct. 10, 1921, Pieve di Soligo (TV)
Death: Oct. 18, 2011, Conegliano (TV)
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Death: Oct. 18, 2011, Conegliano (TV)