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‘He said to my heart: look how many Roads we passed through in vain!...’
Antero Tarquiniode Quental Solemnia Verba
You cry, my Prince, and into your child’s tears
Burning with the fire of the South, my wounded soul flows
And everything in us merges: our eyes, our lives, the summer,
The blood of the peonies, my impenitent words!
Translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges