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We shall remember once, too late,
This simple happening, so fine,
This very bench where we are seated,
Your burning temple next to mine.
From hazel stamens, cinders fall
White as the poplars that they land on,
Beginnings want to be fecund,
May gives itself with sweet abandon.
The pollen falls on both of us,
Small mountains made of golden ashes
It forms around us, and it falls
On our shoulders and our lashes.
It falls into our mouths when speaking,
On eyes, when we are mute with wonder
And there’s regret, but we don’t know
Why it would tear us both asunder.
We shall remember once, too late,
This simple happening, so fine,
This very bench where we are seated
Your burning temple next to mine.
In dreams, through longings, we can see—
All latent in the dust of gold
These forests that perhaps could be—
But that will never, ever, grow.
December 1960
Main topics of interest:
Category:Romanian books * Category:Romanian philosophy * Category:Romanian literature
Category:Transylvanian School * Category:Historical regions of Transylvania * Category:History of Transylvania
Category:Romance languages * Category:Eastern Romance languages * Category:Romanian language
Articles:
Palia de la Orăștie * Eastern Romance languages * Densuș Church
Mărțișor * Substrate in Romanian * Common Romanian * Marius Sala * Grigore Brâncuș
Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae * Romanian language * Deportations of Romani people to Transnistria
Vlachs * Eastern Romance influence on Slavic languages * The Holocaust in Romania
Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa * Modern Romanian * Apulum (conurbation)
Old Romanian language * Aromanian dialects
Romance languages * Classification of Romance languages * Aromanian language * Lucian Blaga
Romanian National Council * Decree of Turda * Hurmuzaki Psalter * Romanian literature * Romanian National Guards
To do:
Gallo-Romance languages * Károly Torma * Veturia Goga * The Lexicon of Buda * Ruling Council of Transylvania, Banat and the Romanian Lands in Hungary * Romagnol * Antisemitism in Romania * History of the Jews in Romania * Crișana dialect