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Created on 2007-05-27 20:34:47 (#13032659), last updated 2009-06-01

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The City by C.P. Cavafy (Translated by Rae Dalven)

You said, "I will go to another land, I will go to another sea.
Another city will be found, a better one than this.
Every effort of mine is a condemnation of fate;
and my heart is - like a corpse - buried.
How long will my mind remain in this wasteland.
Wherever I turn my eyes, wherever I may look
I see black ruins of my life here,
where I spent so many years destroying and wasting."

You will find no new lands, you will find no other seas.
The city will follow you. You will roam the same streets.
And you will age in the same neighborhoods;
and you will grow gray in these same houses.
Always you will arrive in this city. Do you hope for any other -

There is no ship for you, there is no road.
As you have destroyed your life here
in this little corner, you have ruined it in the entire world.