Poesia Estrangeira - Academia Brasileira de Letras

Tradução de Benedicto Ferri de BarrosThe questAll had been ordered weeks before the startFrom the best firms at such work; instrumentsTo take the measure of all queer events,And drugs to move the bowels or the heart.A watch, of course, to watch impatience fly,Lamps for the dark and shades against the sun;Foreboding too insisted on a gunAnd colored beads to soothe a savage eye.In theory they sound on ExpectationHad there been situations to be in:Unluckily they were their situation:One should not give a poisoner medicine,A conjurer fine apparatus, norA rifle to a melancholic bore.190