Portuguese–English parallel text
A Máscara da Morte Rubra
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
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A “Morte Rubra” há muito devastava o país. Jamais peste alguma fora tão fatal ou tão horrível. O sangue era seu Avatar e seu selo — a vermelhidão e o horror do sangue.
The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal—the redness and the horror of blood.
Havia dores agudas e vertigens repentinas, e depois um sangramento profuso pelos poros, seguido da decomposição.
There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
As manchas escarlates sobre o corpo e especialmente sobre o rosto da vítima eram o estigma da peste que a privava da ajuda e da simpatia de seus semelhantes.
The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men.
E todo o ataque, evolução e desfecho da doença eram incidentes de meia hora.
And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.
Mas o Príncipe Próspero era feliz, intrépido e sagaz.
But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.
Quando seus domínios já se achavam quase despovoados, ele convocou à sua presença mil amigos sadios e bem-dispostos dentre os cavaleiros e damas de sua corte, e com eles retirou-se para a profunda reclusão de uma de suas abadias acasteladas.
When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.
Tratava-se de uma edificação vasta e magnífica, criação do gosto excêntrico, mas augusto, do próprio príncipe. Uma muralha forte e imponente a cercava por completo. Essa muralha continha portões de ferro.
This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince’s own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron.
Os cortesãos, tendo entrado, trouxeram fornalhas e martelos pesados e soldaram os ferrolhos. Resolveram não conceder meios de entrada ou saída aos impulsos repentinos de desespero ou de frenesi vindos de dentro. A abadia achava-se amplamente abastecida.
The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts. They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned.
Com tais precauções, os cortesãos podiam desafiar o contágio. O mundo exterior que cuidasse de si mesmo. Entretanto, era insensatez lamentar ou pensar. O príncipe havia providenciado todos os meios de prazer.
With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve, or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure.
Havia bufões, havia improvisadores, havia bailarinos, havia músicos, havia Beleza, havia vinho. Tudo isso e segurança estavam dentro. Do lado de fora reinava a “Morte Rubra”.
There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the “Red Death.”
Foi por volta do encerramento do quinto ou sexto mês de seu retiro, e enquanto a peste grassava com mais furor lá fora, que o Príncipe Próspero ofereceu aos seus mil amigos um baile de máscaras da mais incomum magnificência.
It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence.
Foi uma cena voluptuosa, aquele baile à fantasia. Mas primeiro deixem-me descrever os aposentos nos quais ele se realizou. Eram sete — uma suíte imperial.
It was a voluptuous scene, that masquerade. But first let me tell of the rooms in which it was held. There were seven—an imperial suite.
Em muitos palácios, contudo, tais alas formam uma perspectiva longa e retilínea, enquanto as portas dobradiças recuam quase rentes às paredes de ambos os lados, de modo que a visão de toda a extensão dificilmente se impede.
In many palaces, however, such suites form a long and straight vista, while the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls on either hand, so that the view of the whole extent is scarcely impeded.
Aqui o caso era bem diferente; como seria de se esperar do apreço do duque pelo bizarro. Os aposentos estavam dispostos com tanta irregularidade que a visão mal abrangia mais de um por vez.
Here the case was very different; as might have been expected from the duke’s love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time.
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