Here let me stand, that, for a while, I too
may gaze on nature. Marvellous blue tints
of a morning sea and an unclouded sky
contrasting with an amber-coloured shore, —
all luminously beautiful and grand...
Here let me stand and think I see these things
(I really did see them for a moment,
soon after I had stopped) —
and not, here also,my fantasies, my reminiscences,
the incomparable idols of delight.
~~C.P. Cavafy, translator
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