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    AC Benus
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  • 11/14/2021
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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 30. ...hugging you...

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What can the world outside feel for our happiness?

The cold world, so busy with its false hustle?

Can it strengthen our bond, or drive it asunder?

Can it divide us, or draw us the closer?

 

We see the issues around us disappear,

As useless things that only circumscribe love;

A protected love is a true love sheltered,

And no third party may ever interfere.

 

They, who see us walking through the motley throng,

Shall not suspect that we in our still silence

Consume each other in a lover's embrace.

 

For I ignore all extraneous chatter

When I'm hugging you in my joyful arms,

Finding my self-will for you alone must bend.

--August von Platen,

circa 1816

 

 

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On 11/14/2021 at 7:57 PM, Parker Owens said:

Who can tell what connects two men in a crowd? The last six lines resonate with me. This is another of your most welcome translations of this poet. 

Thank you, @Parker Owens. You have been kind enough to read my Platen translations to date. This is about Sonnet No. 12 of his, and there are more than 60 total, so I keep my head down and plod on :)

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