Monday, January 21, 2019

Rocco Scotellaro / The Paupers

Los pobres en la fuente
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The Paupers 
by Rocco Scotellaro
Translated from the Italian by Norman Thomas di Giovanni

How nice being paupers at Christmas
for then the rich are good;
how nice the crèche at Christmas,
with the lamb
in the midst of lions.


First published, in slightly different form, in The Nation, 13 December 1958.




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