WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (England 1770-1850)
Tejos
Tejos
Hay un tejo, orgullo del
valle Lorton,
que aún hoy, en medio de su
tiniebla,
se yergue igual que en los
viejos tiempos:
en dar armas no se mostró
remiso
a las bandas de Percy o Umfravílle,
o a aquellos que el mar
cruzaron
y el arco sonoro tensaron frente
a Azincourt,
¡Gran circunferencia y honda
penumbra
de ese árbol aislado! ¡Ser viviente,
creció tan lento que morir no
puede!
¡Tan magnífico en su forma y
aspecto,
Indestructible!. Pero aún más
notables
son los cuatro hermanos de Borrowdale,
en amplia y solemne arboleda
unidos:
¡Enormes troncos! Y cada uno
un muro
de entrelazadas fibras
serpentinas
desde antiguo trenzadas,
ascendentes;
mas no de fantasía informe, o
gestos
que al profano asustan: pilar
de sombras
junto a cuya basa de tonos
pardos,
perennemente teñida por
lánguida umbría
-y bajo cuyo techo sable de
ramas adornadas,
cual en fiestas, por las
bayas-,
figuras fantasmales se
encuentran
(Miedo y la Esperanza trémula,
Silencio, Auspicio, el esqueleto
de la Muerte,
sombra del Tiempo) para
celebrar,
como en templo natural
salpicado
de altares de musgo a piedra
impávida,
adoración conjunta; o para,
mudos,
oír el murmullo de los
torrentes
de la arcana cueva de Glaramara.
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Yew Trees
There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore:
Not loathe to furnish weapons for the Bands
Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched
To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea
And drew their sounding bows at Azincour,
Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Of vast circumference and gloom profound
This solitary Tree! -a living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed. But worthier still of note
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks! -and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveteratley convolved, -
Nor uninformed with Fantasy, and looks
That threaten the profane; -a pillared shade,
Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue,
By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged
Perennially -beneath whose sable roof
Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked
With unrejoicing berries -ghostly Shapes
May meet at noontide: Fear and trembling Hope,
Silence and Foresight, Death the Skeleton
And Time the Shadow; there to celebrate,
As in a natural temple scattered o'er
With altars undisturbed of mossy stone,
United worship; or in mute repose
To lie, and listen to the mountain flood
Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore:
Not loathe to furnish weapons for the Bands
Of Umfraville or Percy ere they marched
To Scotland's heaths; or those that crossed the sea
And drew their sounding bows at Azincour,
Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers.
Of vast circumference and gloom profound
This solitary Tree! -a living thing
Produced too slowly ever to decay;
Of form and aspect too magnificent
To be destroyed. But worthier still of note
Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale,
Joined in one solemn and capacious grove;
Huge trunks! -and each particular trunk a growth
Of intertwisted fibres serpentine
Up-coiling, and inveteratley convolved, -
Nor uninformed with Fantasy, and looks
That threaten the profane; -a pillared shade,
Upon whose grassless floor of red-brown hue,
By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged
Perennially -beneath whose sable roof
Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked
With unrejoicing berries -ghostly Shapes
May meet at noontide: Fear and trembling Hope,
Silence and Foresight, Death the Skeleton
And Time the Shadow; there to celebrate,
As in a natural temple scattered o'er
With altars undisturbed of mossy stone,
United worship; or in mute repose
To lie, and listen to the mountain flood
Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
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