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CLEMENTINA ARDERIU (1889 - 1976)
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- SONG OF BEAUTIFUL TRUST
(Translation by Sam Abrams)
- To my beloved I have given
- all the keys;
- I have all of his,
- so we make peace.
- Yet there is a chamber,
- deep in the back,
- we cannot enter
- not even briefly.
- So many hidden powers,
- so many thoughts
- escape there
- at all times.
- It would be rather useless
- to try to catch a glimpse:
- the uproar would strike you
- harder than a rock.
- Let us be contented with a shadow
- or an echo.
- Let him keep his accounts
- as I do mine.