Fernando Pessoa
22 - RIVERS
RIVERS
Many rivers run
Down to many seas.
All my cares are one:
On what river of these
Could my heart have peace?
Two banks to each river.
None where I may stray
Hearing the rushes shiver
And seeing the river ever
Pass, yet seem to stay.
Maybe there is another
River, but far from Me.
There l may meet the Brother
Of my eternity.
In what God will this be?
1-3-1913
«The Mad Fiddler». in Poesia Inglesa. Fernando Pessoa. (Organização e tradução de Luísa Freire. Prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes.) Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1995.
- 370.1ª publ. in O Louco Rabequista. Fernando Pessoa. (Organização e tradução de José Blanc de Portugal.) Lisboa: Presença, 1988.