text of French poem

[Kathy and Phil Dahl-Bredine]

text of French poemThanks to several of you for the French Quebecois poem, as well as the English one.  I'm printing them to take along with us in April.
Kathy
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Priestly 
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU 
  Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:51 PM
  Subject: text of French poem


  Hi,
  Here it is, as sent to me by Rosina yesterday but with my own amendments to the translation (and checked by a Francophone here):
    "Je serai pelerin.
    Je marcherai.
    Je marcherai sous le soleil trop lourd,
    sous le pluie a verse et dans la tourmente.
    En marchant, le soleil rechauffera
    mon coeur de pierre,
    la pluie fera de mes deserts un jardin.
    A force d'user mes chaussures,
    j'userai mes habitudes.
    Je marcherai,
    et ma marche sera demarche .
    J'irai moins au bout de la route
    qu'au bout de moi-meme.
    Je serai pelerin.
    Je ne partirai pas seulement en voyage;
    je deviendrai  moi-meme un voyage,
    un pelerinage."
    (Une groupe de pélerins québecois)

    I will be a pilgrim.
    I will walk.
    I will walk under the burning sun,
    in the pouring rain and in the storm.
    Walking, the sun will warm
    my heart of stone,
    the rain will transform my deserts into a garden.
    Through wearing out my shoes
    I shall wear away my old habits.
    I shall walk.
    And my walk will be a beginning.
    I will go less in order reach the end of the route
    than to reach the end of myself.
    I will be a pilgrim.
    I will not just depart on a journey,
    but I myself will be a journey,
    a pilgrimage.
    (A group of Québec pilgrims)


  Cheers, Tom
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