ma-network's and cabal's quietude today led me wondering,
tho clearly some are yahoo and other types of account,
the wave that goes through when hotmail is having problems.
i don't know if it's international. in canada, since the daunting mergers
of a number of news empires, internet networks, across genres (tv/radio/paper)
in some instances terrible flaws have resulted.
For those like myself, who love the idea of email accounts
being free, the having of a hotmail account, with its legendary
inconveniences - absurd spam, constant system changes,
foolish wonkiness - and yahoo with its practically no spam at all
practically non-existence failiures, and sensible mode of yahoogroups,
has just worked out so much better in so many ways but since the
mergers, ---- take it from one who has felt hotmail's failures
were inducements to pay for upgrades, from the beginning! -----
since their mergers their primary links don't even work that well
it doesn't know where to go, because in fact in my conclusion
the system merger among hotmail msn and sympatico was FLAWED
.....as much as i suggest writing the yahoo life and death timings
still reside at unpredictable times among less constant emailers
at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] - here at least, hotmail is down presently
...i have just 2
matters to resolve
at hotmail
they say it will be back soon
down!
At the same time, the yahoos are thriving, and i can say
my friend Marshall, the Translator, has translated another
and sent it forth. It is magnificent. He has no problems with it
so it is yours. The author translated appears at the end
but do not look. Enjoy the poem full force first!
Here it is, translated by Marshall Hryciuk, sent to 2
summerquietedlists, like the glory of possibility itself:
--- imago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lesbos
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> Mother of the Latin games, of the pleasures of the Hellenes
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> Lesbos, where kisses languid and joyous
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> Warm as the sun, cool as the muskmelon
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> Set the array of hours always glorious,
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> Mother of the latin games, of the pleasures of the Hellenes.
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> Lesbos, where the kisses are as waterfalls,
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> Fearlessly hurtling through gulfs without ground
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> Then to run jerkily in sobs by gurgling walls
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> Hulking and hidden, swarming and profound,
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> Lesbos, where the kisses are as waterfalls!
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> Whither the Phrygians attract one another, Lesbos
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> Where never does a sigh sound without its echo
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> And the homage of the stars to you equals that for Paphos
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> And Venus can justly be jealous of Sappho!
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> Whither the Phrygians attract one another, Lesbos.
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> Lesbos, land of warm nights all so langourous,
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> And which are your mirros, sterile sensuality!
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> Daughters of the hollow eyes, their bodies so amourous
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> Caress the ripe fruit of their nigh nubility,
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> Lesbos, land of warm nights also langourous
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> Leave off of old Plato furrowing his austere gaze,
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> You take pardon for the number of your kisses,
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> Queen of the soft empire, of friendly and noble ways
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> Of refinements never exhausted nor remiss,
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> Leave off of old Plato furrowing his austere gaze.
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> Of the eternal martyr you are excused,
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> Inflicted on aspirant hearts without respite
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> And drawing from our distance the smile of the amused,
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> Glimpsed but vaguely on shores under other skies!
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> Of the eternal martyr you are excused!
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> Who of the Gods, Lesbos, would dare to be your judge
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> And condemn your pale brow into drudgery
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> If its golden scales had not weighed the floods
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> Of tears pouring out from the streams to the sea?
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> Who of the Gods, lesbos, would dare to be your judge?
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> What value to us writs of the just and not-just?
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> Virgins of the sublime heart, honour of the Archipelago
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> Your religion as any other is august
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> And love will laugh with the Sky and to Hell go!
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> What value to us writs of the just and not-just?
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> For Lesbos of all the earth has been chosen by me
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> To chant the secret of its virgins' flowering
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> And i have since childhood admired the dark mystery
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> Of frenzied delights twined with tearful cowering;
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> For Lesbos of all the earth has been chosen by me.
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> And since that choice have i stood watch on Leukate's summit
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> Like a sentry of steady and piercing eye
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> Awaiting night and day brig, sails or frigate
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> From the distant forms shimmering in the blue sky;
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> And since that choice have i stood watch on Leukate's summit
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> To know if the sea is indulgent and mild
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> And if among the sobs wherein the rock echoes
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> An evening will settle so Lesbos beguiled
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> Will yield the adored corpse of Sappho, who will go
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> To know if the sea is indulgent and mild!
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> Of the male Sappho, the lover and the poet,
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> More beautiful than Venus, pallid among the shades!
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> The azure eye is conquered by the dark eye below it
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> That flecks the cloudy circle by suffering frayed
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> Of the male Sappho, lover and poet!
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> More lovely than Venus drawing unto the lands
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> And pouring out the treasures of her serenity
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> And of her blonde youthfulness the radiance
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> Of the ancient ocean and her enchanted filligree -
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> More lovely than Venus drawing unto the lands!
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> Of Sappho who died the day of her blasphemy
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> When, insulting the created cult and rite
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> She made of her beautiful body the meadow supreme,
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> By the the coarseness with which pride punishes impiety
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> Of her who died the day of her blasphemy.
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> And from that time has Lesbos lamented
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> And that despite praise the world offers in thanks
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> Borne away is each night with the shriek of the torment
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> Pushing to the skies its abandoned banks!
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> And from that time has Lesbos lamented!
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> Charles Baudelaire Lesbos Paris 1857
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