Hello! Grain of beauty
Waking at the fountain
Filled with the valley
Splitting the plain
Hello grain of beauty
Hello caressing footprint
Teasing and enchanted
On the hillside
Hello grain of beauty
Greedy for my verses
Filled with pleasure
Full of love and eloquence
Hello grain of beauty
Hello plural ink
Making us relate
Your eternal history
Beauty awakening
To the smell of my verses
To the shade of my trellis
And of my various wishes
Beauty ennobling
All beauty of things
Adorning and filling
All mirrors of roses
I wait for your beauty
With which my glass runs over
In its eternity
To recall my verses
Mansour M'henni (born 1950) Tunisia
Translated from the French by Keith Bosley
Source: Banipal No. 39, 2010
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