Holland Remembered Thinking of Holland
I see wide rivers
running slowly through
endless lowlands,
unthinkable rows
of transparent poplars
like high plumes
standing at the horizon;
and in the tremendous
space submerged
the farms
spread over the country,
groups of trees, villages,
truncated towers,
churches and elms
in a wide context.
the sky hangs low there
and the sun’s being
smothered slowly
in grey many-coloured vapours,
and in all the regions
the voice of the water
with its everlasting disaster
will be feared and be heard.
(Original title: Herinnering aan Holland - from: Verzameld werk - poëzie, proza en critisch proza - 3de druk 1972 - E.M. Querido's Uitgeverij N.V., Amsterdam) |
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| H. Marsman [1899-1940] |
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