<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358753" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, Student of Greek Literature (In Kyrini)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'My end came while I was happy.<br>Ermotelis had me for his inseparable friend.<br>During my last days, though he tried to make me believe<br>that he wasn't worried, I often noticed his eyes<br>red from crying. And when he'd think<br>I'd fallen asleep, he'd collapse at the edge of my bed<br>as though out of his mind. But we were both young men<br>of the same age, twenty-three years old.<br>Fate is a traitor. Maybe some other passion<br>would have taken Ermotelis from me.<br>It ended the right way: our love undivided.'<br>This epitaph for Marylos, son of Aristodimos,<br>who died in Alexandria a month ago,<br>was sent to me, his cousin Kimon, in my mourning.<br>It was sent by the author, a poet friend of mine,<br>sent because he knew I was related to Marylos-<br>but that's all he knew.<br>My heart is full of sorrow over Marylos.<br>We grew up together, like brothers.<br>I'm deeply saddened. His premature death<br>completely wiped out any grudge...<br>any grudge I may have had against Marylos,<br>even if he did steal Ermotelis' love away from me-<br>so that if Ermotelis should want me again now,<br>it won't be at all the same as it was.<br>I know this susceptible nature of mine. The image of Marylos<br>will come between us, and I'll hear Marylos say to me:<br>'See, you're satisfied now.<br>You've taken him back again as you longed to, Kimon;<br>see, you've lost your excuse for maligning me now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358753" data-title="Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, Student of Greek Literature (In Kyrini) de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="'My end came while I was happy. Ermotelis had me for his inseparable friend. During my last days, though he tried to make me believe that he wasn't worried, I often noticed his eyes red from crying. And when he'd think I'd fallen asleep, he'd coll..."></div> </div> </div>

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