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Poemas favoritos LXXXVIII
Favorite poems LXXXVIII
Das Utopias
Mário Quintana
Se as coisas são inatingíveis... ora!
Não é motivo para não querê-las...
Que tristes os caminhos, se não fora
A presença distante das estrelas!
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The Third TemptationW. H. Auden
He watched with all his organs of concern
How princes walk, what wives and children say;
Re-opened old graves in his heart to learn
What laws the dead had died to disobey.
And came reluctantly to his conclusion:
"All the arm-chair philosophers are false;
To love another adds to the confusion;
The song of pity is the Devil's Waltz."
And bowed to fate and was successful so
That soon he was the king of all creatures:
Yet, shaking in an autumn nightmare, saw,
Approaching down a ruined corridor,
A figure with his own distorted features
That wept, and grew enormous, and cried Woe.
