The Just
A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished.
He who is grateful for the existence of music.
He who takes pleasure in tracing an etymology.
Two workmen playing, in a café in the South, a silent game
of chess.
The potter, contemplating a color and a form.
The typographer who sets this page well, though it may not
please him.
A woman and a man, who read the last tercets of a certain
canto.
He who strokes a sleeping animal.
He who justifies, or wishes to, a wrong done him.
He who is grateful for the existence of a Stevenson.
He who prefers others to be right.
These people, unaware, are saving the world.
(Translated by Alastair Reid)
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