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object:1.jlb - Empty Drawing Room
book class:Borges - Poems
author class:Jorge Luis Borges
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter

SALA VACIA
Los muebles de caoba perpetan
entre la indecisin del brocado
su tertulia de siempre.
Los daguerrotipos
mienten su falsa cercana
de vejez enclaustrada en un espejo
y ante nuestro examen se escurren
como fechas intiles
de borrosos aniversarios.
Con ademn desdibujado
su casi-voz angustiosa
corre detrs de nuestras almas
con ms de medio siglo de atraso
y apenas si estar ahora
en las maanas iniciales de nuestra infancia.
La actualidad constante
convincente y sangunea
festeja en el trajn de la calle
su plenitud irrecusable
de apoteosis presente
mientras la luz
abre un boquete en los cristales
y humilla las seniles butacas
y arrincona y ahorca
la voz lacia
de los antepasados.

EMPTY DRAWING ROOM
Amid the brocades dimness
the mahogany suite continues
its everlasting conversation.
The daguerreotypes tell their lie:
a false nearness
of old age cloistered in a mirror,
and when we look hard they elude us
like pointless dates
of murky anniversaries.
With a blurred gesture
their anxious almost-voice
runs after our souls
more than half a century late
and there its scarcely reached
the first mornings of our childhood.
Actuality, ceaseless,
ruddy, and beyond doubt,
celebrates in the streets traffic
its unassailable abundance
of present apotheosis,
while the light
slices through the windowpanes
and humbles the senile armchairs
and comers and strangles
the shriveled voice
of these ancestors.
[W. S. Merwin]



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