The day was cloudy. No one could come to a decision;
\na light wind was blowing. \u2018Not a north-easter, the sirocco,’ someone said.
\nA few slender cypresses nailed to the slope, and, beyond, the sea
\ngrey with shining pools.
\nThe soldiers presented arms as it began to drizzle.
\n\u2018Not a north-easter, the sirocco,’ was the only decision heard.
\nAnd yet we knew that by the following dawn
\nnothing would be left to us, neither the woman drinking sleep at our side
\nnor the memory that we were once men,
\nnothing at all by the following dawn.<\/p>\n
\u2018This wind reminds me of spring,’ said my friend
\nas she walked beside me gazing into the distance, \u2018the spring
\nthat came suddenly in the winter by the closed-in sea.
\nSo unexpected. So many years have gone. How are we going to die?’<\/p>\n
A funeral march meandered through the thin rain.<\/p>\n
How does a man die? Strange no one’s thought about it.
\nAnd for those who thought about it, it was like a recollection from old chronicles
\nfrom the time of the Crusades or the battle of Salamis.
\nYet death is something that happens: how does a man die?
\nYet each of us earns his death, his own death, which belongs to no one else
\nand this game is life.<\/p>\n
The light was fading from the clouded day, no one decided anything.
\nThe following dawn nothing would be left to us, everything surrendered, even our hands,
\nand our women slaves at the springheads and our children in the quarries.
\nMy friend, walking beside me, was singing a disjointed song:
\n\u2018In spring, in summer, slaves . . .’
\nOne recalled old teachers who’d left us orphans.
\nA couple passed, talking:
\n\u2018I’m sick of the dusk, let’s go home,
\nlet’s go home and turn on the light.’<\/p>\n
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\nGiorgos Seferis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n