童話『アンテロープの歩む道』7

旅を始めて幾日が過ぎ、アンテロープは彼の四肢が以前ほど痛みを感じないことに気づいた。

彼は歩を止めて風の到来を待った。あの吟遊詩人の風がやってくることを、なぜか彼は予感していた。

風が吹き始め、アンテロープは両目を閉じた。風は新しい詩を彼の耳元で歌い、彼が生まれた日の朝を 祝福した。

アンテロープは父親と母親の声を思い出し、なぜ今まで忘れていたのか不思議に思った。

そしてアンテロープは身体を横たえ、おだやかな気持ちで永遠の安息をむかえた。

風は彼の身体が赤い土と混じり合うまで歌い続け、渓谷中のみんなは一頭のアントワープが、最後の地 で何を見つけたのか夢の中で知った。

The Path the Antelope Walks #7

It had been some days since he started the journey.

The Antelope noticed that his feet didn’t hurt as they had before.  He stopped to wait for the Wind. 

For some reason, he had a premonition that the Minstrel Wind was going to come.

Then the Wind began to blow, and the Antelope closed his eyes.  The Wind sang a new poem into his ear, blessing the morning he was born.

The Antelope remembered his father and mother’s voices.  He wondered why he had forgotten them until before that.

The Antelope lied down to peacefully meet his eternal sleep.

The Wind continued singing until his body commingled with the red earth. 

Everyone in the red canyon saw in their dreams that the Antelope had at last found his final resting place.