One Gentle Evening Suave - Rachel Bluwstein

One gentle evening suave, I'll go

Outside and immobile,

Not speaking to a single soul,

I'll sit awhile.

I'll rest like one who seeks refuge

From the sirocco's heat,

In the shade of a leafy tree,

While sitting at its feet.

I shall pretend to have forgot

That fate's decree is signed,

Which changes my few festive days

To mourning predestined.

One gentle evening, suave, I'll go

Outside and immobile,

Not speaking to a single soul,

I'll sit awhile.

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Rachel Bluwstein Sela (1890 - 1931) Israel (born in Russia)

Translated from the Hebrew by Elias Pater

Source: Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 3 No. 3,m 1996

From Selected Poems of Rachel, Translated from the Hebrew by Elias Pater, EKED, 1974