Mosaic - ALL FLESH IS GRASS

"Der mentsh--azoy vi graz zaynen zayne teg
vi a shprautzung fun feld, azoy shprautzt er." --Tilim 103.15

Man--his days are like those of grass,
he blooms like a flower of the field.

homo sicut faenum dies eius
tamquam flos agri sic efflorebit

All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

homo quasi herba dies eius
sicut flos agri sic florebit

All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.

Hominis dies sunt similes faeno,
sicut flos agri, ita floret.

"It is, it was,
It is done,
While we sigh 'Alas!'"

"All flesh is weak.
All flesh is grass,
I corrected her
in my head"

"as my friend Ernie
rose in a puff
of smoke."

11/8/15

Note as to sources: The quote at the beginning is Psalm 103.15 in Yiddish. That psalm is the earliest source, and I then give it in English and in one of three Latin translations. Then I give Isaiah 40.6, which is also derived from the psalm, followed by the second Latin translation of the psalm, then 1Peter 1.24, which has the same derivation, followed by the third Latin translation of the psalm. Then I give a quote from the poem All Flesh is Grass by Christina Rossetti, and a quote from The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, followed by a paraphrase (based on memory) of some words from The Last of the Just, by André Schwarz-Bart.