"Cruzar a Margem" ("Crossing the Bar") - Poema de Alfred Tennyson

Joachim Patinir also called Patenier (Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects,
c. 1480–1524), "Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx", c. 1515–1524, Prado, Madrid.

Cruzar a Margem


Estrela do crepúsculo e da noite,
E um claro chamamento por mim!
Que da margem não me chegue pranto
Quando eu partir para o mar,

Que a maré pareça adormecida
Cheia de mais para sons e espumas
Quando quem saiu das funduras sem fim
De novo a casa regressar.

Sino do crepúsculo e da noitinha
E depois dele apenas as trevas!
Não haja qualquer tristeza da despedida
Quando eu embarcar;

Embora das nossas raias de Tempo e Lugar
Para longe possa a maré levar-me
Espero encontrar o meu Piloto cara a cara
Quando eu a margem cruzar.


Alfred Tennyson
(Tradução de Helena Barbas)

Joachim Patinir, "Passage du Styx", détail: 'Charon conduisant sa barque'.

 

 
Joachim Patinir, "Passage du Styx", détail: 'L'enfer'.

 

 
Joachim Patinir, "Passage du Styx", détail: 'Les limbes'. 

 

 
Joachim Patinir, "Passage du Styx",  détail: 'Le paradis'.

Crossing the Bar
(Original)

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.

Alfred Tennyson

["Crossing the Bar" is an 1889 elegiac poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the "sandbar" between the river of life, with its outgoing "flood", and the ocean that lies beyond death, the "boundless deep", to which we return.] (daqui)