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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=354457" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>L'Albatros (The Albatross)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipage<br>Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,<br>Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,<br>Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">À peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,<br>Que ces rois de l'azur, maladroits et honteux,<br>Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches<br>Comme des avirons traîner à côté d'eux.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!<br>Lui, naguère si beau, qu'il est comique et laid!<br>L'un agace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,<br>L'autre mime, en boitant, l'infirme qui volait!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées<br>Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l'archer;<br>Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,<br>Ses ailes de géant l'empêchent de marcher.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Albatross</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a crew <br>Catch albatrosses, those vast sea birds <br>That indolently follow a ship <br>As it glides over the deep, briny sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarcely have they placed them on the deck <br>Than these kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed, <br>Pathetically let their great white wings <br>Drag beside them like oars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That winged voyager, how weak and gauche he is, <br>So beautiful before, now comic and ugly! <br>One man worries his beak with a stubby clay pipe; <br>Another limps, mimics the cripple who once flew!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet resembles this prince of cloud and sky <br>Who frequents the tempest and laughs at the bowman; <br>When exiled on the earth, the butt of hoots and jeers, <br>His giant wings prevent him from walking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by William Aggeler</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Albatross </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes for sport the men of loafing crews <br>Snare the great albatrosses of the deep, <br>The indolent companions of their cruise <br>As through the bitter vastitudes they sweep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarce have they fished aboard these airy kings <br>When helpless on such unaccustomed floors, <br>They piteously droop their huge white wings <br>And trail them at their sides like drifting oars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How comical, how ugly, and how meek <br>Appears this soarer of celestial snows! <br>One, with his pipe, teases the golden beak, <br>One, limping, mocks the cripple as he goes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Poet, like this monarch of the clouds, <br>Despising archers, rides the storm elate. <br>But, stranded on the earth to jeering crowds, <br>The great wings of the giant baulk his gait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Roy Campbell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Albatross</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Sometimes, to entertain themselves, the men of the crew <br>Lure upon deck an unlucky albatross, one of those vast <br>Birds of the sea that follow unwearied the voyage through, <br>Flying in slow and elegant circles above the mast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No sooner have they disentangled him from their nets <br>Than this aerial colossus, shorn of his pride, <br>Goes hobbling pitiably across the planks and lets <br>His great wings hang like heavy, useless oars at his side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How droll is the poor floundering creature, how limp and weak — <br>He, but a moment past so lordly, flying in state! <br>They tease him: One of them tries to stick a pipe in his beak; <br>Another mimics with laughter his odd lurching gait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Poet is like that wild inheritor of the cloud, <br>A rider of storms, above the range of arrows and slings; <br>Exiled on earth, at bay amid the jeering crowd, <br>He cannot walk for his unmanageable wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by George Dillon</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Albatrosses</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Often our sailors, for an hour of fun,<br>Catch albatrosses on the after breeze<br>Through which these trail the ship from sun to sun<br>As it skims down the deep and briny seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scarce have these birds been set upon the poop,<br>Than, awkward now, they, the sky's emperors,<br>Piteous and shamed, let their great white wings droop<br>Beside them like a pair of idle oars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These wingèd voyagers, how gauche their gait!<br>Once noble, now how ludicrous to view!<br>One sailor bums them with his pipe, his mate<br>Limps, mimicking these cripples who once flew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets are like these lords of sky and cloud,<br>Who ride the storm and mock the bow's taut strings,<br>Exiled on earth amid a jeering crowd,<br>Prisoned and palsied by their giant wings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Jacques LeClercq</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Albatross</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often, to amuse themselves, the men of the crew <br>Catch those great birds of the seas, the albatrosses, <br>lazy companions of the voyage, who follow <br>The ship that slips through bitter gulfs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hardly have they put them on the deck, <br>Than these kings of the skies, awkward and ashamed, <br>Piteously let their great white wings <br>Draggle like oars beside them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This winged traveler, how weak he becomes and slack! <br>He who of late was so beautiful, how comical and ugly! <br>Someone teases his beak with a branding iron, <br>Another mimics, limping, the crippled flyer!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, <br>Haunting the tempest and laughing at the archer; <br>Exiled on earth amongst the shouting people, <br>His giant's wings hinder him from walking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>— Translated by Geoffrey Wagner</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Baudelaire">Charles Baudelaire</a><div class=q>
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