{"id":38228,"date":"2020-11-10T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/?p=38228"},"modified":"2020-11-10T00:44:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:44:41","slug":"the-house-near-the-sea-2222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/the-house-near-the-sea-2222\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The house near the sea (GEORGE SEFERIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The houses I had they took away from me. The times
\nhappened to be unpropitious: war, destruction, exile;
\nsometimes the hunter hits the migratory birds,
\nsometimes he doesn\u2019t hit them. Hunting
\nwas good in my time, many felt the pellet;
\nthe rest circle aimlessly or go mad in the shelters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t talk to me about the nightingale or the lark
\nor the little wagtail
\ninscribing figures with his tail in the light;
\nI don\u2019t know much about houses
\nI know they have their own nature, nothing else.
\nNew at first, like babies
\nwho play in gardens with the tassels of the sun.
\nthey embroider colored shutters and shining doors
\nover the day.
\nWhen the architect\u2019s finished, they change,
\nthey frown or smile or even grow stubborn
\nwith those who stayed behind, with those who went away
\nwith others who\u2019d come back if they could
\nor others who disappeared, now that the world\u2019s become
\nan endless hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know much about houses,
\nI remember their joy and their sorrow
\nsometimes, when I stop to think;
\nagain
\nsometimes, near the sea, in naked rooms
\nwith a single iron bed and nothing of my own,
\nwatching the evening spider, I imagine
\nthat someone is getting ready to come, that they dress
\nhim up
\nin white and black robes, with many-colored jewels,
\nand around him venerable ladies,
\ngray hair and dark lace shawls, talk softly,
\nthat he is getting ready to come and say goodbye to me;
\nor that a woman\u2014eyelashes quivering, slim-waisted,
\nreturning from southern ports,
\nSmyrna Phodes Syracuse Alexandria,
\nfrom cities closed like hot shutters,
\nwith perfume of golden fruit and herbs\u2014
\nclimbs the stairs without seeing
\nthose who\u2019ve fallen asleep under the stairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Houses, you know, grow stubborn easily when you strip
\nthem bare.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

By G. Seferis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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