Fernando Pessoa and Co. by Fernando Pessoa

Author:Fernando Pessoa
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802198518
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I WANT MY VERSES TO BE LIKE JEWELS

I want my verses to be like jewels,

Able to endure into the far future

Untarnished by the death

That lurks in each thing,

Verses which forget the hard and sad

Brevity of our days, taking us back

To that ancient freedom

We’ve perhaps never known.

Here in these friendly, far-removed shadows

Where history ignores us, I remember those

Who carefully weave

Their carefree verses.

And remembering you above all others,

I write beneath the veiled sun

And drink, immortal Horace,

Superfluous, to your glory.

5 AUGUST 1923

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