Traductor invitado

A. S. KLINE TRADUCE A JOACHIM DU BELLAY

Newcomer, who looks for Rome in Rome,

And little of Rome in Rome can perceive,

These old walls and palaces, yet believe,

These ancient archways; are what men call Rome.

What ruin and what pride, temple and dome!

Now she, of whom the whole world once asked leave,

Who tamed all others, tames herself: conceive,

She’s prey to Time, a leaf from some old tome.

Rome now of Rome’s the only monument,

And over Rome alone Rome wins ascent;

Only the Tiber, flowing to the sea,

Remains: of Rome. O, this world’s transience!

That which stands firm, Time ruins silently,

While what flows, against Time shows resistance.