Le Cid by Corneille Pierre

Author:Corneille Pierre [Pierre, Corneille]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics
ISBN: 9782035831989
Publisher: Distribooks, Inc.
Published: 1896-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Scene V.—DON DIEGO.

Never do we experience (lit. taste) perfect joy. Our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; always some cares, (even) in the (successful) events, mar the serenity of our satisfaction. In the midst of happiness my soul feels their pang: I float in joy, and I tremble with fear. I have seen (lying) dead the enemy who had insulted me, yet I am unable to find (lit. see) the hand which has avenged me. I exert myself in vain, and with a useless anxiety. Feeble (lit. broken down; or, shattered) though I am, I traverse all the city; this slight degree of vigor, that my advanced years have left me, expends itself fruitlessly in seeking this conqueror. At every moment, at all places, in a night so dark, I think that I embrace him, and I embrace only a shadow; and my love, beguiled by this deceitful object, forms for itself suspicions which redouble my fear. I do not discover any traces of his flight. I fear the dead Count's friends and retinue; their number terrifies me, and confounds my reason. Rodrigo lives no more, or breathes in prison! Just heavens! do I still deceive myself with a shadow only (lit. an appearance), or do I see, at last, my only hope? It is he; I doubt it no more. My prayers are heard, my fear is dispelled, and my trouble ended.

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