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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Hi,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Here it is, as sent to me by Rosina
yesterday but with my own amendments to the translation (and checked
by a Francophone here):</font></div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>"Je serai pelerin.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Je marcherai.<br>
Je marcherai sous le soleil trop lourd,<br>
sous le pluie a verse et dans la tourmente.<br>
En marchant, le soleil rechauffera<br>
mon coeur de pierre,<br>
la pluie fera de mes deserts un jardin.<br>
A force d'user mes chaussures,<br>
j'userai mes habitudes.<br>
Je marcherai,<br>
et ma marche sera demarche .<br>
J'irai moins au bout de la route<br>
qu'au bout de moi-meme.<br>
Je serai pelerin.<br>
Je ne partirai pas seulement en voyage;<br>
je deviendrai moi-meme un voyage,<br>
un pelerinage."</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>(Une groupe de pélerins
québecois)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
I will be a pilgrim.<br>
I will walk.<br>
I will walk under the burning sun,<br>
in the pouring rain and in the storm.<br>
Walking, the sun will warm<br>
my heart of stone,<br>
the rain will transform my deserts into a garden.<br>
Through wearing out my shoes<br>
I shall wear away my old habits.<br>
I shall walk.<br>
And my walk will be a beginning.<br>
I will go less in order reach the end of the route<br>
than to reach the end of myself.<br>
I will be a pilgrim.<br>
I will not just depart on a journey,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>but I myself will be a
journey,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>a pilgrimage.<br>
(A group of Québec pilgrims)</blockquote>
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<div>Cheers, Tom</div>
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