Demi-Lune Dans Un Vent Fort. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Poem Hunter/ Carl Sandburg/Poems/ 151/457. 'Streel'(Irish) = stream, trail, vapour. I decided that Sandburg's 'mooney' could not be translated directly.
He thinks that the moon is more valuable than money, even if he had any. He paints in many colours: 'Green pines', gray elms', 'new blue', 'gold', and the 'white mist'. The overall effect of the colours is to create a beautiful scene. Because of the 'new blue', it seems to be the moon as you see it in the day-time. There are sheets of cloud and mist covering the half-moon at times, then moving on.
His thoughts become confused. He wants the half-moon to come down, then stay where it is. He has been 'hit deep, you drive far'-the moon has a huge orbit around Earth. He worries that the streel and the sheets of mist will move on and leave the moon 'alone and lovely', as if it were a woman. His confused thoughts continue: 'I want you, I don't, come down, / Stay there, move on'. He is finally back to thinking that money is nothing now, even if he had it.
I have often seen the moon by day, though usually at night, and I did not realize how enthralling and lovely it could be. Carl Sandburg has, I think, broken new ground in presenting ideas and their opposites in the man's mind. 'I want you, I don't, ' and others, are sentences which make 'Half Moon in a High Wind' memorable for me,
and very classy.