Voices

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

Ideal and beloved voices of those who are dead, or of those who are lost to us like the dead.

Sometimes they speak to us in our dreams; sometimes in thought the mind hears them.

And with their sound for a moment return other sounds from the first poetry of our life -- like distant music that dies off in the night.

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