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Fourteenth Elegy

by Frances Jammes (translation)



janine canan




My Love, you said. My Love, I answered.
It's snowing, you said. Snowing, I answered.

Still, you said. Still, I answered.
So it is, you said. So it is, I answered you.

Later on you told me, I love you. And I replied, -- More than ever.
The lovely summer is ending, you said. -- It's autumn,

I replied. And our words were no longer the same.
Finally one day you said, Oh Beloved, I love you so much.

(just as vast Autumn gloriously descended).
And I responded, Tell me again --



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