Quan plau a Déu que la fusta peresca
Ausiàs March
Ausiàs March
LXXXII
When it is God’s will that the ship go down,
no port is safe: rigging,
anchors, all will break;
and often some small ailment leads to death:
none
can foresee how anything will end.
The wise man’s placed no better than the
fool,
save that his guesses are more well informed.
Experience and
judgement always fail,
duped by Fortune and by what comes to pass.
AUSIÀS MARCH, Thirty Verse Translations, London; Barcelona: Tamesis;
Fundació Carulla, 2006
Traduït per Robert Archer
