rhodora

• ingilizce bir şiir, çevirmeli...
  (bkz: ralph waldo emerson)
  
  -uyduruktan ya da tahminen şiirin öncesi-
  
  bana nerelisin diye sorulduğunda
  rhodora adlı bir çiçek açar civarımda,
  oluşu olur oluşumun mazereti,
  yeşerir tüm mazeretlerim.
  
  güzelliği mazeretindedir
  güzelliğin mazeretindir,
  rhodora
  etindir
  budundur
  senin adın.
  
  senin adın bu iken
  sevda benim adım.
• kuzey amerikan menşeyli, eflatun bir çiçek.
• on being asked, whence is the flower?
  
  in may, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,
  i found the fresh rhodora in the woods,
  spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,
  to please the desert and the sluggish brook.
  the purple petals, fallen in the pool,
  made the black water with their beauty gay;
  here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,
  and court the flower that cheapens his array.
  rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
  this charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
  tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
  then beauty is its own excuse for being:
  why thou wert there, o rival of the rose!
  i never thought to ask, i never knew:
  but, in my simple ignorance, suppose
  the self-same power that brought me there brought you.
  
  ralph waldo emerson