| We looked all morning around the castle
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| Starting from the shaded side,
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| There where the sea
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| Green and without luster — breast of a slain peacock.
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| Received us like time without an opening in it
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| Veins of rock dropped down from high above
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| Twisted vines, naked, many — branched, coming alive!!!
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| Hollow in the light
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| Like a dry jar in dug earth
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| At the water’s tough, while the eye following them
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| Struggled to escape the tiresome rocking,
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| Losing strength continually
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| On the sunny side a long open beach
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| And the light striking diamonds on the huge walls.
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| No living thing, the wild doves gone
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| And the king of Asine, whom we’ve been
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| Trying to find for two years now,
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| Unknown, forgotten by all, even by homer,
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| Only one word in the Iliad and that uncertain,
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| Thrown here like the gold burial mask
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| You touched it, remember it’s sound?
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| Hollow in the light
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| Like a dry jar in dug earth
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| The same sound that our oars make in the sea
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| The king of Asine, a void under the mask
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| Everywhere with us, everywhere with us,
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| Under a name: «Ασιυην τε… Ασ
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| ιυην τε… «And his children statues and his desires
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| The fluttering of birds, and the wind
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| In the gaps between his thoughts,
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| And his ships anchored in a vanished port,
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| Under the mask… a void!!!
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| Behind the large eyes the curved lips, the curls
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| Carved in relief on the gold cover
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| Of our existence!!!
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| A dark spot that you see traveling like a fish
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| In the dawn calm of the sea.
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| A void everywhere with us
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| And the bird that flew away last winter
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| With a broken wing a bode of life,
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| And the young woman who left to play
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| With the dogteeth of summer,
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| And the soul that sought the lower world
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| Squeaking, and the country like a large
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| Plane — leaf swept a long by the torrent
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| Of the sun with the ancient monuments
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| And the contemporary sorrow… sorrow!!!
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| Shield bearer, the sun climbed warring
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| And from the depths of the cave
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| A startled bat, hit the light
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| As an arrow hits a shield:
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| «Ασιυην τε… Ασιυ&#
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| ην τε…»
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| Could that be the king of Asine.
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| And the poet lingers, looking at the stones,
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| And asks himself, does there really exist
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| Among these ruined lines, edges, points,
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| Hollows and curves, does there really exist
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| Here where one meets the path of rain,
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| Wind and ruin, does there exist
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| The movement of the face, shape of the
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| Tenderness!!!
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| Of those who’ve shrunk so strangely
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| In our lives,
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| Those who remained the shadow of waves
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| And thoughts with the seas boundlessness,
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| Or perhaps no, nothing is left but the weight,
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| The nostalgia for the weight of
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| A living existence!!!
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| Shield bearer, the sun climbed warring,
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| And from the depths of the cave
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| A startled bat, hit the light
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| As an arrow hits a shield:
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| «Ασιυην τε… Ασιυ&#
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| ην τε…»
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| Could that be the king of Asine!!!
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| There where we now remain unsubstantial
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| Bending like the branches of a
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| Terrible willow — tree heaped in?
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| Permanent despair
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| While the yellow current slowly
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| Carries down rushes up — rooted
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| In the mud?? |
| image of a form that
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| The sentence?? |
| to everlasting bitterness
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| Has turned to marble the poet a void!!!
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| Behind the large eyes the curved lips
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| The curls, carved in relief on the
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| Cold cover of our existence!!!
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| A dark spot that you see
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| Traveling like a fish
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| In the dawn calm of the sea.
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| A void everywhere with us
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| And the bird that flew away last winter
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| With a broken wing abode of life.
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| We’ve been searching for so carefully
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| On this acropolis
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| Sometimes toughing with our fingers
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| His touch upon the stones.
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| The king of Asine, a void under the mask
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| Everywhere with us, everywhere with us,
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| Under a name:
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| «Ασιυην τε… Ασιυ&#
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| ην τε…»
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| And his children statues and
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| His desires the fluttering
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| Of birds!!!
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| Shield bearer, the sun climbed warring,
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| And from the depths of the cave,
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| A startled bat, hit the light
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| As an arrow hits a shield:
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| «Ασιυην τε… Ασιυ&#
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| ην τε…»
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| Gould that be the king of Asine!!!
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| King of Asine, king of Asine!!!
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