Si può forse dubitare che siano proprio i giorni più belli quelli che fuggono per primi per i miseri mortali, vale a dire per gli affaccendati? Mentre i loro animi sono ancora nella puerilità li sorprende quella vecchiaia24 cui giungono impreparati e inermi; non vi hanno infatti provveduto e vi sono caduti a un tratto senza accorgersene dato che no

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Before they joined the motorway she took out the poems. In the dark wake of your footsteps, my love, my love. ‘They never found his grave,’ she said. See how the hyacinths line my banks! I will leave my mouth between your legs, my soul in photographs and lilies. She would have preferred Granada. She would have liked to find the mountain road near A

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Stagger onward rejoicing;

And even then if, perhaps

Having actually got

To the last col, you collapse

With all Atlantis shining

Below you yet you cannot

Descend, you should still be proud

Even to have been allowed

Just to peep at Atlantis

In a poetic vision:

Give thanks and lie down in peace,

Having seen your salvation.