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We just spent an hour outside watching the night sky. Two falling stars, Jupiter hovering above the treetops, and I have no words of my own, absolutely none, for what I'm feeling right now.


DON PEDRO

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best
becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in
a merry hour.

BEATRICE

No my lord, my mother cried; but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.


--Shakespeare


Stjärnorna

När natten kommer
står jag på trappan och lyssnar,
stjärnorna svärma i trädgården
och jag står ute i mörkret.
Hör, en stjärna föll med en klang!
Gå icke ut i gräset med bara fötter;
min trädgård är full av skärvor.


--Edith Södergran

The Stars

When night falls
I stand on my porch and listen,
the stars swarm in the garden
and I stand outside in the dark.
Listen, a star fell, singing!
Do not walk on the grass with bare feet;
my garden is full of shards.


--my translation

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Date: 2009-09-26 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nokomis305.livejournal.com
The lines that immediately sprang to mind for me are from Andrew Marvell's "The Definition of Love," which might be about unrequited love, but is achingly beautiful.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

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Date: 2009-09-26 09:27 pm (UTC)
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (serious)
From: [identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com
Oh, oh wow. Truly something to take out next time someone calls rhymed poetry trite, that. Stunning.
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Date: 2009-09-26 09:50 pm (UTC)
ext_3762: girl reading outside in sunshine (zoid)
From: [identity profile] harborshore.livejournal.com
It depends a little on whether it's old and depressing or new and depressing. Old and depressing is a lot easier to deal with, methinks.

Hee, really? It's the extra dots and circles, isn't it. (She's my favorite poet. Which says a lot, probably.)

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