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The Stone
"AND will you cut a stone for him,
To set above his head?
And will you cut a stone for him--
A stone for him?" she said.
Three days before, a splintered rock
Had struck her lover dead--
Had struck him in the quarry dead,
Where, careless of a warning call,
He loitered, while the shot was fired--
A lively stripling, brave and tall,
And sure of all his heart desired . . .
A flash, a shock,
A rumbling fall . . .
And, broken 'neath the broken rock,
A lifeless heap, with face of clay,
And still as any stone he lay,
With eyes that saw the end of all.
I went to break the news to her:
And I could hear my own heart beat
With dread of what my lips might say;
But some poor fool had sped before;
And, flinging wide her father's door,
Had blurted out the news to her,
Had struck her lover dead for her,
Had struck the girl's heart dead in her,
Had struck life, lifeless, at a word,
And dropped it at her feet:
Then hurried on his witless way,
Scarce knowing she had heard.
And when I came, she stood alone--
A woman, turned to stone:
And, though no word at all she said,
I knew that all was known.
Because her heart was dead,
She did not sigh nor moan.
His mother wept:
She could not weep.
Her lover slept:
She could not sleep.
Three days, three nights,
She did not stir:
Three days, three nights,
Were one to her,
Who never closed her eyes
From sunset to sunrise,
From dawn to evenfall--
Her tearless, staring eyes,
That, seeing naught, saw all.
The fourth night when I came from work,
I found her at my door.
"And will you cut a stone for him?"
She said: and spoke no more:
But followed me, as I went in,
And sank upon a chair;
And fixed her grey eyes on my face,
With still, unseeing stare.
And, as she waited patiently,
I could not bear to feel
Those still, grey eyes that followed me,
Those eyes that plucked the heart from me,
Those eyes that sucked the breath from me
And curdled the warm blood in me,
Those eyes that cut me to the bone,
And cut my marrow like cold steel.
And so I rose and sought a stone;
And cut it smooth and square:
And, as I worked, she sat and watched,
Beside me, in her chair.
Night after night, by candlelight,
I cut her lover's name:
Night after night, so still and white,
And like a ghost she came;
And sat beside me, in her chair,
And watched with eyes aflame.
She eyed each stroke,
And hardly stirred:
she never spoke
A single word:
And not a sound or murmur broke
The quiet, save the mallet stroke.
With still eyes ever on my hands,
With eyes that seemed to burn my hands,
My wincing, overwearied hands,
She watched, with bloodless lips apart,
And silent, indrawn breath:
And every stroke my chisel cut,
Death cut still deeper in her heart:
The two of us were chiselling,
Together, I and Death.
And when at length my job was done,
And I had laid the mallet by,
As if, at last, her peace were won,
She breathed his name, and, with a sigh,
Passed slowly through the open door:
And never crossed my threshold more.
Next night I laboured late, alone,
To cut her name upon the stone.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
MANNEN PÅ HOLDEPLASSEN (Prøysen 1965)
(Pogo pop sin versjon er veldig bra)
Jeg kom fra kontoret og jeg var så trett
Du stod der på hjørnet så vever og lett
Jeg skulle ha trikk nummer en
Da kikket du på meg og du var så pen
Jeg sank i et hav og jeg steg mot en himmel
Og himlen var skyfri og ren
Og hverdagens plikter ble borte med vinden
Og dermed gikk trikk nummer en
Jeg stod med en mappe så diger som så
Med hjemmearbeide på overtid nå
Jeg måtte ta trikk nummer to
Da smilte du mot meg og kanskje du lo
Jeg sank i et hav og jeg steg mot en himmel
Og som i en rus jeg forsto
At jeg hadde latt mange gleder gå fra meeg
Og dermed gikk trikk nummer to
Jeg skjønte at dette jeg tenkte var galt
Så snøt jeg meg litt før jeg tenkte normalt
Og hoppet på trikk nummer tre
Og så gjennom ruten du sluttet å le
Jeg fant ikke hav og jeg fant ingen himmel
Men hverdagens melankoli
Og du, som jeg angrer,
I brødre i nøden:
La trikk nummer tre gå forbi!
