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”Zică toţi ce vor să zică,
Treacă-n lume cine-o trece;
Ca să nu-ndrăgeşti nimică,
Toate-s vechi şi nouă toate;
Tu te-ntreabă şi socoate;
De te-ndeamnă, de te cheamă,
Şi ar sta să le asculte?...
Înspre clipa ce se schimbă
Ce din moartea ei se naşte
Toate-s vechi şi nouă toate.
Tu în lume să te-nchipui:
Totuşi tu ghici-vei chipu-i,
Şi de plânge, de se ceartă,
Tu în colţ petreci în tine
Şi-nţelegi din a lor artă
Tot ce-a fost ori o să fie
În prezent le-avem pe toate,
Lumea-i veselă şi tristă;
Alte măşti, aceeaşi piesă,
Nu spera când vezi mişeii
De ai fi cu stea în frunte;
Teamă n-ai, căta-vor iarăşi
Între dânşii să se plece,
Nu te prinde lor tovarăş:
Ce e val, ca valul trece.
Lumea-ntinde lucii mreje;
Ca să schimbe-actorii-n scenă,
Tu pe-alături te strecoară,
Nu băga nici chiar de seamă,
De te-ndeamnă, de te cheamă.
De te-ating, să feri în laturi,
De hulesc, să taci din gură;
Ce mai vrei cu-a tale sfaturi,
Zică toţi ce vor să zică,
Treacă-n lume cine-o trece;
Ca să nu-ndrăgeşti nimică,
De te-ndeamnă, de te cheamă;
Ce e val, ca valul trece,
Toate-s vechi şi nouă toate:
"Days go past and days come still
All is old and all is new,
What is well and what is ill,
You imagine and construe;
Do not hope and do not fear,
Waves that leap like waves must fall;
Should they praise or should they jeer,
Look but coldly on it all".
Things you'll meet of many a kind,
Sights and sounds, and tales no end,
But to keep them all in mind
Who would bother to attend ?...
Very little does it matter,
If you can yourself fulfil,
That with idle, empty chatter
"Days go past and days come still".
Little heed the lofty ranging
That cold logic does display
To explain the endless changing
Of this pageantry of joy,
And which out of death is growing
But to last an hour or two;
For the mind profoundly knowing
"All is old and all is new".
As before some troup of actors,
You before the world remain;
Act they Gods, or malefactors,
'Tis but they dressed up again.
And their loving and their slaying,
Sit apart and watch, until
You will see behind their playing
"What is well and what is ill".
What has been and what to be
Are but of a page each part
Which the world do read is free.
Yet who knows them off by heart ?
All that was and is to come
Prospers in the present too,
"You image and construe".
With the selfsame scales and gauges
This great universe to weigh,
Man has been for thousand ages
Sometimes sad and sometimes gay;
Other masks, the same old story,
Players pass and reappear,
Broken promises of glory;
"Do not hope and do not fear".
Do not hope when greed is staring
O'er the bridge that luck has flung,
These are fools for not despairing,
On their brows though stars are hung;
Do not fear if one or other
Does his comrades deep enthrall,
Do not let him call you brother
"Waves that leap like waves must fall".
Like the sirens' silver singing
Men spread nets to catch their prey,
Up and down the curtain swinging
Midst a whirlwind of display.
Leave them room without resistance,
Nor their commentaries cheer,
Hearing only from a distance,
"Should they praise or should they jeer".
If they touch you, do not tarry,
Should they curse you, hold your tongue,
All your counsel must miscarry
Knowing who you are among.
Let them muse and let them mingle,
Let them pass both great and small;
Unattached and calm and single,
"Look but coldly on it all".
"Look but coldly on it all,
Should they praise or should they jeer;
Waves that leap like waves must fall,
Do not hope and do not fear.
What is well and what is ill;
All is old and all is new,
Days go past and days come still".
English version by Corneliu M. Popescu.