<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540805" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>About Troy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Troy O Troy<br>an archeologist<br>will sift your ashes through his fingers<br>yet a fire occurred greater than that of the Iliad<br>for seven strings--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">too few strings<br>one needs a chorus<br>a sea of laments<br>and thunder of mountains<br>rain of stone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">--how to lead<br>people away from the ruins<br>how to lead<br>the chorus from poems--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">thinks the faultless poet<br>respectably mute<br>as a pillar of salt<br>--The song will escape unharmed<br>It escaped<br>with flaming wing<br>into a pure sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon rises over the ruins<br>Troy O Troy<br>The city is silent</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poet struggles with his own shadow<br>The poet cries like a bird in the void</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon repeats its landscape<br>gentle metal in smoldering ash</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They walked along ravines of former streets<br>as if on a red sea of cinders</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and wind lifted the red dust<br>faithfully painted the sunset of the city</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They walked along ravines of former streets<br>they breathed on the frozen dawn in vain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they said: long years will pass<br>before the first house stands here</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they walked along ravines of former streets<br>they thought they would find some traces</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a cripple plays<br>on a harmonica<br>about the braids of a willow<br>about a girl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the poet is silent<br>rain falls</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zbigniew+Herbert">Zbigniew Herbert</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=540805" data-title="About Troy de Zbigniew Herbert" data-description="1 Troy O Troy an archeologist will sift your ashes through his fingers yet a fire occurred greater than that of the Iliad for seven strings-- too few strings one needs a chorus a sea of laments and thunder of mountains rain of stone --how to le..."></div> </div> </div>

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