Under headdresses linen, all crossing their arms
Dressed in coarse wool or thin percale
women kneeling on the rock of the hold
look at the ocean launder Ile de Batz.
men, fathers, son, husbands, lovers, there
With those Paimpol Audierne and Cancale
Northbound left for the distant call,
What hardy fishermen who will not come back!
Above the murmur of the sea and coasts,
A plaintive song rises, citing high voices
L'Etoile holy hope sailors at risk.
And Angelus all these fronts curving black tan,
Owl Roscoff to those of Sibiril
flies away, tinkle and dies in the sky pink and pale.
Jose-Maria de Heredia
Stella Maris
Stella Maris