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Agrégation externe – Session 2003 Épreuve de traduction. Durée 6 heures VERSION A rapid walker poetically and humorously minded gathers multitudes of images on his way. And rain, the heaviest you can meet, is a lively companion when the resolute pacer scorns discomfort of wet clothes and squealing boots. South-western rain-clouds, too, are never long 5 sullen: they enfold and will have the earth in a good strong glut of the kissing overflow; then, as a hawk with feathers on his beak of the bird in his claw lifts head, they rise and take veiled feature in long climbing watery lines: at any moment they may break the veil and show soft upper cloud, show sun on it, show sky, green near the verge they spring from, of the green of grass in early dew; or, along a travelling sweep that rolls asunder overhead, heaven's laughter 10 of purest blue among titanic white shoulders: it may mean fair smiling for awhile, or be the lightest interlude; but the water lines, and the drifting, the chasing, the upsoaring, all in a shadowy fingering of form, and the animation of the leaves of the trees pointing them on, the bending of the tree-tops, the snapping of branches, and the hurrahings of the stubborn hedge at wrestle with the flaws, yielding but a leaf at most, and that on a fling, make a glory of 15 contest and wildness without aid of colour to inflame the man who is at home in them from old association on road, heath, and mountain. Let him be drenched, his heart ...

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Agrégation externe – Session 2003

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A rapid walker poetically and humorously minded gathers multitudes of images on his way.

And rain, the heaviest you can meet, is a lively companion when the resolute pacer scorns

discomfort of wet clothes and squealing boots. South-western rain-clouds, too, are never long

sullen: they enfold and will have the earth in a good strong glut of the kissing overflow; then,

as a hawk with feathers on his beak of the bird in his claw lifts head, they rise and take veiled

feature in long climbing watery lines: at any moment they may break the veil and show soft

upper cloud, show sun on it, show sky, green near the verge they spring from, of the green of

grass in early dew; or, along a travelling sweep that rolls asunder overhead, heaven's laughter

of purest blue among titanic white shoulders: it may mean fair smiling for awhile, or be the

lightest interlude; but the water lines, and the drifting, the chasing, the upsoaring, all in a

shadowy fingering of form, and the animation of the leaves of the trees pointing them on, the

bending of the tree-tops, the snapping of branches, and the hurrahings of the stubborn hedge

at wrestle with the flaws, yielding but a leaf at most, and that on a fling, make a glory of

contest and wildness without aid of colour to inflame the man who is at home in them from

old association on road, heath, and mountain. Let him be drenched, his heart will sing. And

thou, trim cockney, that jeerest, consider thyself, to whom it may occur to be out in such a

scene, and with what steps of a nervous dancing-master it would be thine to play the hunted

rat of the elements, for the preservation of the one imagined dry spot about thee, somewhere

on thy luckless person! The taking of rain and sun alike befits men of our climate, and he who

would have the secret of a strengthening intoxication must court the clouds of the South-west

with a lover's blood.

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Vernon's happy recklessness was dashed by fears for Miss Middleton. Apart from those fears,

he had the pleasure of a gull wheeling among foam-streaks of the wave. He supposed the

Swiss and Tyrol Alps to have hidden their heads from him for many a day to come, and the

springing and chiming Southwest was the next best thing.

George Meredith,

The Egoist

, 1879.