Rosa da Paz

THE ROSE OF PEACE

IF Michael, leader of God's host
When Heaven and Hell are met,
Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
He would his deeds forget.

Brooding no more upon God's wars
In his divine homestead,
He would go weave out of the stars
A chaplet for your head.

And all folk seeing him bow down,
And white stars tell your praise,
Would come at last to God's great town,
Led on by gentle ways;

And God would bid His warfare cease,
Saying all things were well;
And softly make a rosy peace,
A peace of Heaven with Hell.

[Poeta irlandês, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) não esquece as suas origens e menos as influências celtas (Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry - 1888; The Celtic Twilight - 1893) e herméticas (The Secret Rose - 1897) da sua escrita, do seu sentir.