XXXVI SONG
Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) Buck translation
WHEN he returned, I hid my face with my two hands. He said to me: “Fear nothing. Who has seen our kissing?—Who has seen us? the night and the moon.”
“—And the stars and the first dawn. The moon has mirrored herself in the lake and has told it to the water under the willows. The water of the lake has told it to the oar.
“And the oar has told it to the boat and the boat has told it to the fisher. Alas; alas! if that were all! But the fisher has told it to a woman.
“The fisher has told it to a woman: my father and my mother and my sisters and all Hellas will know it.”