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arsvitaest:

by Edward Hirsch

(Hofmannsthal in Athens, 1908)

These ruinous days of autumn. At dawn
the brightness seeps through the crumbling air,
at dusk the air gathers up the brightness.

So this is Greece, fabled decay. For years
he dreamt of caressing the flanks of these hills
and standing on the…

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