Thanks,Originally posted by Skweeky@17 May 2003 - 07:33
The poem describes a beatiful valley. Very nice, peaceful. There's a little rivers, flowers, soft grass and there is someone lying next to the river. He seems to be happy, looks undisturbed. The you take a closer look. The person is a soldier lying, there, dead, with three shotwounds in his chest....
The first three strophes describe the state of the valley and the way we see the soldier. The last strophe says (roughly translated)
'The perfumes do not make his nose tremble
He sleeps in the sun, his hands on his chest
Calm.He has three red holes in his right side'
It makes me wish I had learned French in school, to be able to read it in the language it was written, with understanding.
Peace
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