“Earth, what have I to do with thee?
With your meadows where dumb beasts
Grazed before the deluge without lifting their heads?
What have I to do with your implacable births?
So why this gracious melancholia?
Is it because anger is no use?”
"A Portal" (1976), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)
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