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“Days of 1903” by Constantine P. Cavafy 🇬🇷 (29 Apr 186329 Apr 1933)
Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
I never found them again—the things so quickly lost …
the poetic eyes, the pale
face … in the dusk of the street …
I never found them again—the things acquired quite by chance,
that I gave up so lightly;
and that later in agony I wanted.
The poetic eyes, the pale face,
those lips, I never found again.