I give my hand to justice,
Diaphanous fountain, sublimest spring,
My sky is deep and changeless
All I love is incessantly reborn
All I love is always at its beginning.
Odysseus Elytis
1911 - 1996
[final verse]
Edmund Keeley and
Philip Sherrard
editing and translation
Voices of Modern Greece
Princeton University Press, 1981©
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