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Text
E cielo e terra si mostrò qual era:
la terra ansante, livida, in sussulto;
il cielo ingombro, tragico, disfatto:
bianca bianca nel tacito tumulto
una casa apparì sparì d’un tratto;
come un occhio, che, largo, esterrefatto,
s’aprì si chiuse, nella notte nera.
And sky and earth showed what they were like:
the earth panting, livid, in a jolt;
the sky burdened, tragic, exhausted:
white-white in the silent tumult
a house appeared, disappeared in the blink of an eye;
like an eyeball, that enlarged, horrified,
opened and closed itself, in the pitch-black night.
-text by Giovanni Pascoli,
translation by Alessandro Baruffi