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I’m Still Prodigal
Translated by Edward Ginsburg.

I’m still as spendthrift
As ever I have been.
However few hours fate will leave me,
Though I must ponder that solemn hour,
At end of earthly days.

And though I am aware
Of each hour now so beguiling,
I just pretend it’s all it’s ever been,
When every dawn I knew was bright and blue.

And fancy bears me to boundless worlds,
At each brim of night
At each edge of day,
World that are anointed with a silence
And opened wide to silvered paths.

And midst the way I am approached,
By footsteps soft and bare,
Leading on toward waiting meadows,
Of my poem’s first-born…the word.

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