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oh night vigils and festivities

how the fields and crevasses

harbours and neighbourhoods

were filled by you,

oh long nights and festivities

how the chorded zurna

encircled you with

a demon’s endless roar,

oh night vigils and festivities

how you’ve dragged me

and how you started and

with song and death, you stopped.

Oh long nights and festivities

under the immense starlight

in monasteries and houses

in longships and darkest taverns

on the castles that chains

and abysmal ditches besiege

in turrets were noble maidens

abductors of the heart reign

and in the thorny ruins

in the light that gives birth

to the agate’s dream

over the peaceful waters

opposite all these and in them

I, the ravaged gypsy singer

was a foreigner in all

I always looked from afar.

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