A New World – chapter 1

INTRODUZIONE
“A New World” è il primo libro di Mosè, più noto come la Genesi, raccontato in modo unico. Versi scorrevoli in rima baciata ed un incalzante ritmo trasportano il lettore dalle delizie verdeggianti del Giardino dell’Eden, oltre Noè e l’alluvione e le avventure di Abramo e Isacco, fino all’arrivo di Giuseppe in Egitto e la sua ascesa al potere come braccio destro del Faraone. Uno stile scanzonato ma mai irriverente, porta in vita i personaggi di questa storia biblica e fa di “A New World” una lettura molto piacevole sia per bambini che per adulti.

The
very
beginning

[Genesis 1:1]

Once upon a long long time, a long long time ago,
There was not a single thing of all that we now know.
Absolutely nothing was all that could be seen,
Nothing here, nothing there, and nothing in between.
The universe was empty, like a pocket with a hole,
As silent as the ‘b’ in lamb and black, as black as coal.

If you close the curtains and switch off every light,
If you stop your thinking and screw your eyes up tight,
Can you imagine nothing? I don’t suppose you can,
Nothing disappeared, you see, the day it all began.
And everything began, of course, as everyone should know,
Once upon a long long time, a long long time ago.

In those distant days of old, God was one and all,
Alone he wandered in the dark, strong and proud and tall.
But though he was almighty and called himself the Lord,
In all that empty nothingness he very soon got bored.
So one fine day he raised his hands where cosmic vapours swirled,
And stretching out his mighty arms – tock! – he made the world.

He saw that it was beautiful, he saw that it was right,
He couldn’t see much else because there wasn’t any light.
But this was not a problem for God to dwell upon,
He raised his mighty arms again and – tock! – the dark had gone.
Then he really saw it all, the wondrous thing he’d done,
And swiftly made the land and seas, the moon, the stars and sun.

When he’d finished making these, all colourful and bright,
He made the heavens up above, and then the day and night.
He felt such joy and happiness at all the things he saw,
He made the bushes and the trees, the flowers and so much more.
He started making animals, both medium, large and small,
With legs and tails, wings or scales, he quickly made them all.

When everything was ready, according to his plan,
He scooped a little dust up and made the world’s first man.
After sitting for a while in quiet contemplation,
‘Adam’ was the name his chose to call his new creation.
God was really happy now, he had so much to do,
His man would need assistance and lots of guidance too.

God selected Adam to be the one in charge
Of all the plants and animals, both medium, small and large.
But Adam would require a gift to carry out this role,
So God blew in his nostrils and gave his man a soul.
The Lord was pleased with Adam, very pleased indeed,
And really quite determined to meet his every need.

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