O MESMO QUE AS AUGAS

Os vellos a se admiraren nas augas

Ouvín que os vellos, vellos, dicían,

"Toda cousa vese mudada,

e imos caíndo, día tras día".

Tiñan as mans como poutas, e xoellos

retortos como os espiños vellos

á beira das augas.

Ouvín que os vellos, vellos, dicían,

"Todo o fermoso vaise á deriva,

o mesmo que as augas".

The old men admiring themselves in the water

I heard the old, old men say,

“Everything alters,

And one by one we drop away.”

They had hands like claws, and their knees

Were twisted like the old thorn-trees

By the waters.

I heard the old, old men say,O

“All that’s beautiful drifts away

Like the waters.”

W.B. Yeats

Fotografías de © Henri Cartier-Bresson