Trinity Journal of Literary Translation
Online: Michelangelo 103 Each closed off space, each covered place,
and every canopy that circumscribes
preserves the nighttime, while the day survives, from the sun and the sport of his beaming rays.
And, as she can be conquered by a fire or a flame,
her subtler hallowed features could be scattered and defiled by sunlight – or some light – or even something vile. So very much broken by the glowing of a worm. Whatever gets seeded for a thousand plants
and left under sunshine to sprout in the heat,
the forceful ploughman will harrow and chop. But only the dark can plant a man.
So the night is more sacred than the day, it seams, for man’s more valuable than other crops.
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