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The Greatest Love

A poem by Anna Swir

Translated by: Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
Collection: A Book of Luminous Things
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The poem

She is sixty. She lives the greatest love of her life.

She walks arm-in-arm with her dear one, her hair streams in the wind. Her dear one says: "You have hair like pearls."

Her children say: "Old fool."

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