BardicTranslationRoughs/ReturnToNaples

Years have passed, prophecies have come true
Once more I look upon the waves from the deck of a ship
My friend! From now on my loneliness
Will nevermore set you apart from me.

Agile seagulls dive seawards
Mermaids' songs fly up to the clouds
My heart, eternally unconquered,
Day by day moves closer to the shores that fathered me.

A marble virgin in her holy permanence watches as, invisible to idle eyes,
A little white boat, returning from a distant voyage,
Slides along azure waterways towards home
Slides quietly along azure waterways

The bindings are torn, and the censures lifted
The surf gently sighs in the shoreline crags
Do you still remember me?
Do you know that I am near?

At strange latitudes past the fearsome equator
A lonely cross beneath the stars
An eternal sun burns over Naples
An eternal sky laughs at the waves