2014-02-24

How are Bella and Edward spending their time together? Edward is going to make an important promise. The new chapter is ready: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8955111/31/


She was that single flower that the poet couldn't send to his readers from a different time.


Camilla's short poem (SatinCoveredSteel helped to translate it):

Ormai i giochi sono fatti
tutti i dadi sono tratti:
per aver l' eterno amore
lui dovrà fermarle il cuore.


That’s all folks, and at length,
decisions have been made with strength:
to gain eternal love, to start,
he will have to stop her heart.




The Epilogue is due to be posted next week!
Reviewers get a little gift.

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Unending Love, by Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,
Its ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.

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The Gardener [85], by Rabindranath Tagore

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds.
Open your doors and look abroad.

From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

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