Living
Some Song or Other
Translated by Jethro Bithell (1911) · From Contemporary Belgian Poetry (1911)
The song of moonlight all
That trembles as aspens shake,
The thrush sang it at the evenfall
To the listening swan on the blue lake.
It is all of love and distress,
And of joy and of love, and then
There are sobs of gold and weariness,
And ever comes joy back again.
Far, far away flew the thrush,
And the swan went pondering
All the new words, by lily and rush,
With his head underneath his wing.
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MLA
Gérardy, Paul. “Some Song or Other.” Translated by Jethro Bithell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-gerardy/4/.
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Gérardy, Paul. “Some Song or Other.” Translated by Jethro Bithell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/paul-gerardy/4/.
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