Teltsje fan de glêzen pot
Ik sette op Skier in glêzen pot,
Wat wie er rûn, del op in dún.
It liet de sloffe wyldernis
Gearkomme om dat dún.
De wyldernis kroep der tsjin op,
Rûn rûnom út, net langer wyld.
De pot wie rûn dêr op de grûn
En heech en fan in loftportaal.
Hy dominearre it totaal.
De pot wie griis en keal.
Hy maalde net om stâle of strûk
Of wat ek mar op Skiermûntseach.
Anecdote of the Jar
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
Ut Harmonium, 1923
