C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
From ‘The Marsh’
By Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)
Translation of Robert Louis Sanderson
I
Lies stagnant, covered with a mantle
Of lily pads and rushes….
Under the creeping duck-weed
The wild ducks dip
Their sapphire necks glazed with gold;
At dawn the teal is seen bathing,
And when twilight reigns,
It settles between two rushes and sleeps.