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I GIVE THANKS TO THEE
I give thanks to thee, Lord, for all
You gave me in my pitiful life -
For the bread I won with honest sweat,
For the woman’s body, blessed as bread,
For the defeats I had in my battles,
For the occasional victories...
And - finally - for the greatest fortune
And grace you bestowed on me with your hands,
The intimacy of the immaculate Muses
That in this inexorable life is given to few,
A divine award, an inaccessible gift …
For which I would willfully bear in life
Tenfold times as much
Dreadful bitterness and suffering,
Inexorable tortures and persecution,
And even death.
1936
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JE TE REMERCIE, SEIGNEUR
Je te remercie, Seigneur, pour tout ce que
Tu m’as donné dans ma pauvre vie.
Pour le pain que j’ai gagné honnêtement
Et pour le corps des femmes, béni comme le pain,
Pour mes défaites dans les batailles que j’ai
menées
Et pour mes rares triomphes...
Et, finalement, pour la plus grande fortune,
Et le bonheur que tu m’as accordé de tes propres
mains.
L’intimité fidèle des Muses
Qu’à peu de gens, dans cette vie inexorable,
Tu accordes comme un don céleste, une grâce inaccessible...
J’aurais souffert de bon gré dans ma vie
Dix fois autant
D’amertume atroce, de douleur,
De supplices inexorables,
De persécutions et même jusqu’à
la mort...
1936
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The Armenian poet Yeghishé Charents was born
in Kars, a provincial Armenian city under the rule of
Imperial Russia. At seventeen, already author of published
poems, he joined an Armenian volunteer army to fight
against the Turks for the liberation of his people.
He witnessed the 
calamities
of World War I, and the extermination of his countrymen
in 1915 by the Ottoman Government. The outcome of his
bitter impressions was the poem, “Dante-esque
Legend” which made him famous at nineteen...
