Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

(Marcin) #1
(Cont.d)

The oxen went on dragging the great stones,
the straw whirled in the wind.
His heart was never content
because he wanted a mountain of grain,
a mountain big as the world
that would reach all the way to the clouds,
that would have seen the depths of the earth,
like the one he had dreamed of.
(Translated by Ruth Feldman)

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