The fine-forged mesh of his gleaming mail-shirt;<\/p>\n
I put me in your wise governance.<\/p>\n
Who does not know his rasp of reeds,<\/p>\n
clever talk and a pretentious manner?<\/p>\n
An English version with an introduction.<\/p>\n
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Her words he heard, her speech found favor.<\/p>\n
He took her back with him to Troy, where she lived with him as his wife.<\/p>\n
Since the names of the fallen are already on record,<\/p>\n
the lots are drawn and there stands the urn.<\/p>\n
It was love; love, the consolation of the human race.<\/p>\n
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Thousands of flowers have blossomed today;<\/p>\n
the coldness of the pavement, the cement,<\/p>\n
his chin nuzzled into his breast<\/p>\n
unbind the crumbling clod.<\/p>\n
Charity departed when I came aboard.<\/p>\n
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Decision harder than the dreams of a hammer,<\/p>\n
madness of chance \/ madness fullgrown;<\/p>\n
when I was little I loved to be good.<\/p>\n
Human beings know what they need.<\/p>\n
He dances in his sadness brilliantly in the moonlight.<\/p>\n
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When one has lived a long time alone<\/p>\n
it is hard to remember if he suffered much.<\/p>\n
From those very fingers emerge pistols of love.<\/p>\n
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