Hai alguns homes

Hai alguns homes
que habien de tener muntanhas
que le guardáran l nome para siempre.

Las lajas screbidas nun son altas bastante
nien berdes,
i ls filhos ban-se para loinge
para se squecéren de l punho
que la mano de ls pais siempre parece.

You tube un amigo:
bibiu i morriu-se an abseluto silenço
i cun denidade,
nun deixou lhibro, filho, ou amiga que l chorasse.

Esta nun ye ua moda penerosa
mas solo un nomear desta muntanha
por adonde camino,
oulorosa, scura, i amerosamente branca
ambaixo la palhideç de la nubrina.
Dou-le a esta muntanha l nome del.

Leonard Cohen [Montreal, 1934 - ... The Spice-Box of Earth (1961)]
Traduçon de Fracisco Niebro




[an anglés:

There are some men
who should have mountains
to bear their names to time.

Grave-markers are not high enough
or green,
and sons go far away
to lose the fist
their father's hand always seem.

I had a friend:
he lived and died in mighty silence
and with dignity,
left no book, son, or lover to mourn.

Nor is this a mourning-song
but only a naming of this mountain
on which I walk,
fragrant, dark, and softly white
under the pale of mist.
I name this mountain after him.