Δευτέρα 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

"Readers" Jorge Luis Borges

Of that knight with the sallow, dry

Complexion and heroic bent, they guess

That, always on the verge of adventure,

He never sallied from his library.

The precise chronicle of his urges

And its tragic-comical reverses

Was dreamed by him, not by Cervantes,

It’s no more than a chronicle of dream.

Such my fate too. I know there’s something

Immortal and essential that I’ve buried

Somewhere in that library of the past

In which I read the history of the knight.

The slow leaves recall a child who gravely

Dreams vague things he cannot understand.

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