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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers (1951)

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,

Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;

They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool

Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.

The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.

When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie

Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.

The tigers in the panel that she made

Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.

팔복(八福)

―마태복음 5장 3~12

슬퍼하는 자는 복이 있나니

저희가 영원히 슬플 것이오.

_1940.12월.(추정)

윤동주, 『정본 윤동주 전집』, 문학과 지성사, 2004, 105쪽.

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