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Gunnar Thorgilsson

(1816 - 1879)

The memory of time
Is full of swords and ships
And the dust of empires
And the rumble of hexameters2
And the high horses of war
And shouts and Shakespeare.
I want to recall that kiss, the kiss
You bestowed on me in Iceland.
 
 
Translated by Hoyt Rogers
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