Days Of 1903

Portrait of Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863–1933

I never found them again -- the things so quickly lost.... the poetic eyes, the pale face.... in the dusk of the street....

I never found them again -- the things acquired quite by chance, that I gave up so lightly; and that later in agony I wanted. The poetic eyes, the pale face, those lips, I never found again.

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