Fernando Pessoa
XIII - The work is done. The hammer is laid down.
XIII
The work is done. The hammer is laid down.
The artisans, that built the slow-grown town,
Have been succeeded by those who still built.
All this is something lack-of-something screening.
The thought whole has no meaning
But lies by Time's wall like a pitcher spilt.
1920
«Inscriptions». in Poemas Ingleses. Fernando Pessoa. (Edição bilingue, com prefácio, traduções, variantes e notas de Jorge de Sena e traduções também de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e José Blanc de Portugal.) Lisboa: Ática, 1974.
- 122.1ª ed. in English Poems I-II. Fernando Pessoa. Lisbon: Olisipo, 1921.