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    Quietly I want to thank my fate:
    never shall I be completely without you.
    As a pearl grows in an oyster,
    so inside me
    your dewy essence sweetly grows.
    I finally one day I have forgotten you -
    then will you be blood of my blood,
    then will you and I be one -
    it is in the power  of the gods.


    Translated into English by Jenny Nunn in "To a friend".

    Swedish original



    Copyright © 1997:
    Translation from Swedish into English: Jenny Nunn

    Published with the permission of:
    Jenny Nunn, translation.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.
     
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