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The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy

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2018
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And look at the result. It’s obvious that Gallus

is very anxious. Constantius is suspicious.

Ah, his advisors weren’t wary in the least.

This story’s gone too far, Mardonius says,

and it’s got to stop at once, all this furore.—

Julian is going back, a Lector once more,

to the church at Nicomedia,

where, loudly and with considerable

piety, he reads the holy Scriptures,

and at his Christian reverence the people wonder.

[1892?; 1924?; 1924]

Before Time Could Alter Them

They were very pained when they parted company.

They themselves ­didn’t want it; it was just the way things were.

The need to make a living was forcing one of them

to go far away— New York or Canada.

Certainly their love ­wasn’t the same as before;

the attraction had been gradually diminished,

its attraction had been very much diminished.

But still, that they should part— that they ­didn’t want.

It was just the way things were.— Or perhaps it was that Fate


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