Edgar Lee Masters - Jack, el ciego

Edgar Lee Masters - Jack, el ciego

VersiĂłn: IsaĂ­as garde


HabĂ­a estado todo el dĂ­a tocando el violĂ­n en la feria del pueblo.

Pero volviendo a casa, Butch Weldy y Jack McGuire,

que estaban totalmente borrachos, me hicieron tocar y tocar

La canciĂłn de Susie Skinner, mientras fustigaban a los caballos

hasta que se desbocaron. Ciego como era, traté de escaparme

mientras el carro volcaba en la cuneta;

quedé enganchado entre las ruedas y morí.

Por acá hay un ciego con una frente

amplia y blanca como una nube.

Y todos los violinistas, 

los compositores de mĂşsica y los contadores de historias,

desde el mayor al menor,

nos sentamos a sus pies

a escucharlo cantar la caĂ­da de Troya.


Blind Jack


I had fiddled all day at the county fair.

But driving home "Butch" Weldy and Jack McGuire,

Who were roaring full, made me fiddle and fiddle

To the song of Susie Skinner, while whipping the horses

Till they ran away. Blind as I was, I tried to get out

As the carriage fell in the ditch,

And was caught in the wheels and killed.

There's a blind man here with a brow

As big and white as a cloud.

And all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest,

Writers of music and tellers of stories

Sit at his feet,

And hear him sing of the fall of Troy.

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