32.22
At this I turned and saw in front of me,
beneath my feet, a lake that, frozen fast,
had lost the look of water and seemed glass
32.31
And as the croaking frog sits with its muzzle
above the water, in the season when
the peasant woman often dreams of gleaning,
32.34
so, livid in the ice, up to the place
where shame can show itself, were those sad shades
whose teeth were chattering with notes like storks’.
32.37
Each kept his face bent downward steadily;
their mouths bore witness to the cold they felt,
just as their eyes proclaimed their sorry hearts.
