New Impressions of Africa by Roussel Raymond Ford Mark

Author:Roussel, Raymond, Ford, Mark
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691144597
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Ascenseur;—pour le dard frêle où le nord s’indique,

Une ligne d’absent qui flotte et coupe en deux

Un bassin;—sentinelle au poste hasardeux,

Au tir, sur son fond blanc, pour une ombre chinoise,

La silhouette noire;—une paire sournoise

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De bolas, droit au but volant câble tendu,

Pour un haltère;—quand l’escrimeur s’est fendu,

Pour une serpe, son fleuret fier d’être courbe;

—Pour la gueule, au tonneau, gobant, sans nulle fourbe,

—When he’s making iron hot enough to be bent,

For a pair of hearth bellows, the bellows used in a forge;

—For that which someone with a cough shows to a throat doctor,

An arched cavern, reddened by the setting sun,

With a solitary stalactite;—a lake of blood that appears

In a dangerous district, for the treacherous spittle

Of a consumptive;—at a saddler’s, the tether

From which an empty stirrup gleams, for the broken fastener

Of a yellow umbrella;—for the perfidious, sworn-at bit of shot

That an eater of game spits aside, cursing it to the devil,

A cannonball cleaving the air;—when it cannot be saved,

Having been caught up in a flood, a shooting target,

For a double-one domino;—as one watches it begin to rise,

For a leaping cork released from its bottle, a cylindrical

Lift;—for the trembling compass needle that indicates north,

The line of an invisible fisherman that quivers and cuts in half

A reservoir;—a sentry at a dangerous post,

In firing position against a white background, for, at a pantomime

shadow play,

A black silhouette;—a pair of cunningly thrown

Bolas, flying straight at their target, the cable between them fully

stretched,

For a dumbbell;—when a fencer has lunged,

For a billhook, his foil that is proud to be bent into a curve;

—For the wide-open mouth of a barrel into which, without cheating,

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