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The Poetry of Lambros Porphyras: A Selection 55 LACRIMAE RERUM Hapless girl ! Our little house is haunted by your beauty so saddened; on the walls, in the mirror, the icons, something from your beauty remains. Something like perfume of musk, and it spreads and floods the poor little house; something like a ghost, blurred and intangible, and where it gently passes it touches everything. Outside, heavy, monotonous drizzle lashes our roof; and then, together, the things which your hands sanctified begin a lamentation . . . a lamentation... And from the corner, the good companion of Lethe, our beloved old clock, singer of time, he too, weeping, regulates slowly, horribly, the keening... —translated by Bette Anne Farmer
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