'As he passes by, clad in the mantle of repentance,
The bird call of Teiresias,
Horus with his head, with his cypress shadow, -
would they turn and look at each other on the Rialto bridge.
would an old woman make the cross for me on a gondola
would he whisper: 'This man
rower of the river of the dead, le rameur
sur le fleuve des morts, news g