To gaze at the river made of time and water
And recall that time itself is another river,
To know we cease to be, just like the river,
And that our faces pass away, just like the water.

To feel that waking is another sleep
That dreams it does not sleep and that death,
Which our flesh dreads, is that very death
Of every night, which we call sleep.

To see in the day or in the year a symbol
Of mankind's days and years,
To transform the outrage of the years,
Into a music, a rumor and a symbol,

To see in death a sleep, and in sunset
A sad gold, if such is Poetry
Immortal and a pauper. For Poetry
Returns like the dawn and the sunset.

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