Eugenio Montale - Bagni di Lucca lyrics

Between the thud of chestnuts And the thunderous hum of weather That heaves their sounds together, The heart hesitates. Precocious winter's polar wind Sets things ashiver. My eyes Look over the ledge that lets Daylight dissolve into ice. Marble, branches... At a touch the leaves like arrows launch to the ditch with a twist. The final herd heads by, their breath a part of the rising mist.