Friday, July 18, 2014

Paul Valery's "The Graveyard by the Sea" read by Elizabeth Fraser


English Translation of Paul Valery's poem "Le Cimetière Marin" read by Scottish singer Elisabeth Fraser.


Absolutely wonderful reading, beautiful and hypnotic voice. However, it omits the last 6 stanzas, the last stanza is my favorite one. This is the last stanza of this poem, the ending:

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
The huge air opens and shuts my book: the wave
Dares to explode out of the rocks in reeking
Spray. Fly away, my sun-bewildered pages!
Break, waves! Break up with your rejoicing surges
This quiet roof where sails like doves were pecking.


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