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SADNESS
My word, today so naked, so clear,
one day a man will come
lie down over you
and try to remove
your mourning gown of oblivion!:
a man who will think of you
as a shadow turned to water with a strange murmur,
you, my voice, water
of simple light!
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Translator: Antonio T. de Nicolás