Verran Lievi Pioggio

 

(Tempo di Guerra)

Verran lievi piogge e l’odore del suolo
E rondini in cerchi brillanti di suono;

E rane nei guazzi di notte a cantare
E pruni selvatici in bianco tremare,

Tordi, d’un fuoco leggero abbigliati
fischiando l’estro sui fili spinati;

E non uno di guerre saprà, non uno
una volta finita, se ne curerà.

Non uno, né albero o alato, in pensiero
Se il genere umano perisse davvero;

E lei, Primavera, aurorale apparire,
a stento saprebbe del nostro svanire.

Trad. ©Patrizia Sardisco

There Will Come Soft Rains

Sara Teasdale

(War Time)

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Hnnu ì’ véniri sbrizzi

 

(Temp’i Guerra)

Hannu ì’ véniri sbrizzi e tirrenu ‘i ciarari
E runnuna ‘o firrìu cu faìddi ‘i sgriciari;

E giurani nte fossa a cantari a nuttata
Per’i pruna sarbaggi nta bbianca trimata,

Pittirrussa di focu esu esu vistuti
friscannu ncaluri nte fila puntuti;

E nuddu a sapìrinni riri ri guerra, nuddu
‘I quann’è ca finìu, ca st’accura.

Iddu àrburu o aceddu, cca nuddu ‘a chiancissi,
Sidd’a ggenti d’u munnu ri tunnu finissi;

E u tempu marzuddu, ri l’ura susutu,
A stentu sapissi ca nni nn’emu jutu.

Trad.©Patrizia Sardisco


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