Broken Promises

Siglo VIII (¿debo añadir después de Cristo?). Alguien estaba inspirado ese día (tal vez esa noche). Escribió en gaélico unos versos. Como no domino perfectamente esa lengua indoeuropea, recomiendo esta versión de Lady Augusta Gregory en la lengua del inmortal bardo con el que comparto época:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/apr/19/poem-of-the-week-lady-augusta-gregory

 Donal Og

It is late last night the dog was speaking of you;

the snipe was speaking of you in her deep marsh.

It is you are the lonely bird through the woods;

and that you may be without a mate until you find me.

that you would be before me where the sheep are flocked;

I gave a whistle and three hundred cries to you,

and I found nothing there but a bleating lamb.

a ship of gold under a silver mast;

twelve towns with a market in all of them,

and a fine white court by the side of the sea.

that you would give me gloves of the skin of a fish;

that you would give me shoes of the skin of a bird;

and a suit of the dearest silk in Ireland.

I sit down and I go through my trouble;

when I see the world and do not see my boy,

he that has an amber shade in his hair.

the Sunday that is last before Easter Sunday

and myself on my knees reading the Passion;

and my two eyes giving love to you for ever.

or tomorrow, or on the Sunday;

it was a bad time she took for telling me that;

it was shutting the door after the house was robbed.

or as the black coal that is on the smith's forge;

or as the sole of a shoe left in white halls;

it was you put that darkness over my life.

you have taken what is before me and what is behind me;

you have taken the moon, you have taken the sun from me;

and my fear is great that you have taken God from me!

You promised me, and you said a lie to me,

You promised me a thing that was hard for you,

You promised me a thing that is not possible,

When I go by myself to the Well of Loneliness,

It was on that Sunday I gave my love to you;

My mother has said to me not to be talking with you today,

My heart is as black as the blackness of the sloe,

You have taken the east from me, you have taken the west from me;

Pero como entiendo que no todos conocemos a Guillermo y a su lengua, recomiendo curiosear en La zona fantasma, de Javier Marías.

http://www.javiermarias.es/