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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 19. ...he swears...
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He Swears
Now and again he swears
To commence a cleaner life,
But when the night comes
With its dark promptings,
Its uncertainties and its enterprises;
When the night comes
With its own dominion
Over the body, he returns, [yearning] and searching,
Lost, to that same [bittersweet] delight.
—C. P. Cavafy[i]
1915
[Sam Steward]
[i] “He Swears” C. P. Cavafy, Sam Steward translation reprinted in Secret Historian (New York 2010), p. 317
https://archive.org/details/secrethistorianl0000spri/page/316/mode/2up
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