Witter Bynner, Grenstone Poems: A Sequence
"Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,For brooks that I had crossed,... Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… . And though they break my heart at last,Yet name no name of ills. Say only, "Here is where he passed,Seeking again those hills."
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"Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,For brooks that I had crossed,... Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… . And though they break my heart at last,Yet name no name of ills. Say only, "Here is where he passed,Seeking again those hills."
"لا تسمّوا علتي بأسماء،
بأنفاسٍ لا تُنبئُ عن شيء؛
أقول لكم: لستُ شيئًا من هذه،
بل أنا حنينٌ قاتلٌ إلى الوطن –
حنينٌ إلى تلالٍ عرفتُها،
وإلى جداولَ عبرتُها،
...قبل أن ألتقي هذا اللحم والعظم
وأتبعهما فأضيع...
وإن حطّموا قلبي في النهاية،
فلا تسمّوا دائي بأسماء.
قولوا فقط: "هنا مرّ،
باحثًا مرةً أخرى عن تلك التلال."
Witter Bynner, Grenstone Poems: A Sequence
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