IN THE WOOD
 
The field was clouded with a lilac heat.
Through the wood rolled the darkness of cathedrals.
What in the world remained for them to kiss?
It was all their, like soft wax in their fingers.
This is the dream, - you do not sleep, but dream
you thirst for sleep, that there’s a fellow dozing
and through his dream from underneath his eyelids
a pair of black suns break and burn his lashes.
Their beams flowed by. And iridescent beetles.
The glass of dragon-flies roamed over cheeks.
The wood was full of tiny scintillations,
as at the clockmaker’s beneath his tweezers.
It seemed he slumbered to the figure’ tick,
while high above his head in harshest amber
they place in ether strictly tested clocks
and regulate them to the change of heat.
They shift them round about and shake the needles
and scatter shadow, swing and bore a place
for the tall masts’ gloom, that’s climbed into the day’s
fatigue and lies across the deep blue dial.
It seemed that ancient joys were flying over,
sunset of dreams once more embraced the wood.
But happy people do not watch the clocks;
it seems they only lie in pairs and sleep.
 
                        Boris Pasternak
                (tradução de J. M. Cowen)
   

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