Robert Graves, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ivo Victoria, Vladimir Majakovski

Dolce far niente

 

 
Spelende kinderen op het strand door Albert Edelfelt, 1884

 

The Beach

Louder than gulls the little children scream
Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam;
But others fearlessly rush in, breast high,
Laughing the salty water from their mouthes–
Heroes of the nursery.

The horny boatman, who has seen whales
And flying fishes, who has sailed as far
As Demerara and the Ivory Coast,
Will warn them, when they crowd to hear his tales,
That every ocean smells of tar.

 

 
Robert Graves (24 juli 1895 – 7 december 1985)
Londen, waar Robert Graves werd geboren.

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