Les Regrets/20

XIX. 'It’s the Carnival, let each do as he may '

Les Regrets ~ XX écrit par Joachim Du Bellay traduit par A. S. Kline

XXI. 'The sea receives the rivers of the world'

Les Regrets - XX. ‘Scève, je me trouvai comme le fils d’Anchise’.

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XX

"As Aeneas did, I found myself likewise"
 
As Aeneas did, I found myself likewise,
Leaving hell, Scève, entering Elysium,
After those ice-covered peaks, to come
Down to sweet Lyon, Lyon that I prize.
 
Its long point of land, the Saône divides,
Breeds a thousand artisans, a mighty hum.
No ill to London, Venice, Anvers whom,
Lyon still equals in its merchandise.
 
I was surprised to meet so many couriers,
To see so many bankers, gunsmiths, printers,
Thicker there than flowers in the meadow,
 
But I was more astonished by the bridges
Over which one passes, to mount the ridges,
So many fine houses, such fine farms below.

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