Platero and I by Jiménez Juan Ramón

Author:Jiménez, Juan Ramón
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05T00:00:00+00:00

LXVIII

SUNDAY

The clamorous voice of the bell, now near, now far, resounds in the sky as if the blue were a crystal goblet. And the open country, already a little sickly, seems to gild itself with open notes falling from the joyous chiming.

Everyone, even the watchman, has gone to town to see the procession. Platero and I are alone. What peace! What freedom! What well-being! I turn Platero loose in the meadow, and, under a pine which the birds have not deserted, I fling myself on the ground to read Omar Khayyám.

The silence between two peals, the inner tumult of the September morning, acquire shape and sound. The gold and black wasps flutter round the bunches of muscatel grapes which load the vine; the butterflies, indistinguishable from the flowers, seem to renew themselves in a metamorphosis of color as they fly. The solitude is like a great thought of light.

Now and then Platero stops eating and looks at me. I, now and then, stop reading and look at Platero.

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