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(de l'amour)
Ils ont passé près de moi
les amants,
plus aimant et plus purs que jamais nous ne fûmes,
ensevelis sous l’amoncellement des caresses.

Ils ont ignoré ma présence
envieuse, admirative ou scandalisée.
Ils ont passé près de moi sans me voir,
insoucieux de qualifier mon émotion.

Et plus que tout
leur dédain me fut durement délectable.
Et leur douceur me plut qui se laisse observer.

Amants, ne craignez rien de moi:
Ma jalousie flotte entre vous, indécise…
C’est seulement à votre abstraction que j’en veux.

(about love)
They passed close by me
the lovers,
more loving and more pure than ever we were,
buried under a snowdrift of caresses.

They were oblivious of my presence,
my envy, admiration or shock.
They passed close by without seeing me,
heedless, not noting my emotion.

And more than anything
their disdain was harsh delight to me.
And their unconcealed tenderness, my pleasure.

Lovers, fear nothing from me:
My jealousy wavers between you, undecided.
I resent your abstraction, that’s all.

English trans. by Susan de Muth

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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