English to French Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

God's Grandeur by G.M. Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.



J'ai trouvé que The line "reck his rod" uses the word "reck" to mean "listen to" or "consider" or "obey"; think "reckon", and the "rod" could be the rod of authority,or it could be a reference to Christ, God's son or "rod". It's similar, in concept, to the phrase, "rod of Jesse", a "rod" off the vine or root. So the line "why do men then now not reck his rod?" can be taken to mean, "why do men not obey his authority?", or "why do men not listen to his son?"


Mais j'hésite toujours sur le choix des mots en Français :

"reck" : prendre garde, reconnaitre, obéir, se soucier ?
"rod" : sceptre ? verge? foudre au masculin ? pieu/épieu (pour rimer avec Dieu au premier vers?)

Des idées?