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Here are the English translations to the text of LE LAC:
Far beyond the oceans,
under the tropical skies,
in the virginal dawn
where the forest falls asleep,
under the entanglement
of the antique vines
a raw, glorious hole of light appears.
It widens, beaming and burning the eyes
as melted metal boils
under the sun;
and there, at the outlet
of the eternal drops,
is a lake, numbed in its long sleep.
A lake of lead, heavy and dead,
that nothing disturbs;
a lake of which no shiver
tarnishes the mirror,
and only caressed by the double wake
of the furtive glide
of the swans with black feathers.
On its borders,
leaping and falling by groups,
tremble large lilies
of mystical paleness;
and on the water the lotus,
like large cups,
receive by flakes the flower petals.
This video contains excerpts from SARAH BERNHARDT IN PERFORMANCE, and they are used here with permission from the publisher www.thegreatstars.com
And like the other flowers
which go by around them,
but alive,
flights of tigered butterflies
fill the light air with
their batting wings
which disturbs in the distance
the sacred silences' peace.
And life is all around,
so warm and so powerful
that despite myself,
I seek in the depth of the endless sky
to see again in the blue
the trace still present
left by the fingers
of the Divine Worker.