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		<title>On the Banks of the Marne by Anna de Noailles</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Jean Morris: a translation of a poem by Anna de Noailles from 1916.]]></description>
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<p>The slow and yielding River Marne<br />
slips past an open, spacious and exhausted land<br />
where sleeping villages hatch from the grass<br />
like stars appearing in the sky.</p>
<p>Here, nature has resumed her careless dreaming,<br />
a white workhorse labours at the plough<br />
while old folk wander through a mottled view of vines,<br />
roses still bloom on an autumnal bush,<br />
a greedy goat is tangled in a bramble patch,<br />
the grapes have been gathered in, the hillside sleeps.</p>
<p>Nothing now bears witness to that inhuman business<br />
except a mound that may hide the shape of a body.<br />
This silent soil embraces all the heroes, broken<br />
by fatigue and hunger, who, knowing they would never<br />
see its end, gave their all in the Battle of the Marne.</p>
<p>The land has covered them. We do not know their names.<br />
They have only the grass and the wind to talk to.<br />
They have entered our dreams.</p>
<p>Beyond these hills and hollows, the muffled,<br />
swooning sound of cannon-fire sinks into the ether.<br />
Night begins to fall. The now infamous river,<br />
forever heedless of what happened here,<br />
soaks up the languor of twilight and falls asleep.</p>
<p>Dazed by the shock of fate, my eyes absorb<br />
the indelible glory and calm possessed by things,<br />
even when men are dead.</p>
<p>October 1916</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3><em>Les bords de la Marne</em></h3>
<p><em>La Marne, lente et molle, en glissant accompagne<br />
Un paysage ouvert, éventé, spacieux.<br />
On voit dans l’herbe éclore, ainsi qu’un astre aux cieux,<br />
Les villages légers et dormants de Champagne.</em></p>
<p><em>La Nature a repris son rêve négligent,</em><br />
<em>Attaché à la herse un blanc cheval travaille.</em><br />
<em>Les vignobles jaspés ont des teintes d’écaille</em><br />
<em>A travers quo l’on voit rôder de vieilles gens.</em></p>
<p><em>Un automnal buisson porte encore quelques roses.</em><br />
<em>Une chèvre s’enlace au roncier qu’elle mord.</em><br />
<em>Les raisins sont cueillis, le coteau se repose,</em><br />
<em>Rien ne témoigne plus d’un surhumain effort</em><br />
<em>Qu’un tertre soulevé par la forme d’un corps.</em></p>
<p><em>– Dans ce sol, sans éclat et sans écho, s’incarnent</em><br />
<em>Les héros qui, rompus de fatigue et de faim,</em><br />
<em>Connaissant que jamais ils ne sauront la fin</em><br />
<em>De l’épique bataille à laquelle ils s’acharnent,</em><br />
<em>Ont livré hardiment les combats de la Marne.</em></p>
<p><em>La terre les recouvre. On ne sait pas leur nom.</em><br />
<em>Ils ont l’herbe et le vent avec lesquels ils causent.</em><br />
<em>Nous songeons.</em></p>
<p><em>Par delà les vallons et les monts</em><br />
<em>On entend le bruit sourd et pâmé du canon</em><br />
<em>S’écrouler dans l’éther entre deux longues pauses.</em><br />
<em>Et puis le soir descend. Le fleuve au grand renom,</em><br />
<em>A jamais ignorant de son apothéose,</em><br />
<em>S’emplit de la langueur du crépuscule, et dort.</em><br />
<em>Je regarde, les yeux hébétés par le sort,</em><br />
<em>La gloire indélébile et calme qu’ont les choses</em><br />
<em> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Alors que les hommes sont morts.</em></p>
<p><em>Octobre 1916</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Painting: <em>Bords de la Marne</em> by Camille Pissarro, 1866</p>
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