object:1.jlb - Inscription on any Tomb
book class:Borges - Poems
author class:Jorge Luis Borges
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
INSCRIPCION EN CUALQUIER SEPULCRO
No arriesgue el mrmol temerario
grrulas infracciones al todopoder del olvido,
rememorando con prolijidad
el nombre, la opinin, los acontecimientos, la
patria.
Tanto abalorio bien adjudicado est a la tiniebla
y el mrmol no hable lo que callan los hombres.
Lo esencial de la vida fenecida
la trmula esperanza,
el milagro implacable del dolor y el asombro del
goce
siempre perdurar.
Ciegamente reclama duracin el alma arbitraria
cuando la tiene asegurada en vidas ajenas,
cuando t mismo eres la continuacin realizada
de quienes no alcanzaron tu tiempo
y otros sern (y son) tu inmortalidad en la tierra.
INSCRIPTION ON ANY TOMB
Let not the rash marble risk
garrulous breaches of oblivions omnipotence,
in many words recalling
name, renown, events, birthplace.
All those glass jewels are best left in the dark.
Let not the marble say what men do not.
The essentials of the dead mans life
the trembling hope,
the implacable miracle of pain, the wonder of sensual
delight
will abide forever.
Blindly the willful soul asks for length of days
when its survival is assured by the lives of others,
when you yourself are the embodied continuance
of those who did not live into your time
and others will be (and are) your immortality on
earth.
[W. S. Merwin]
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