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    IF I COULD FOLLOW YOU

     
    If I could follow you far away,
    further than everything you know,
    out to the world-loneliness
    of the outermost regions go,
    where the Milky Way rolls
    a bright dead foam
    and where in dizzying space
    you seek a home.
    I know: it is impossible.
    But when from your baptism
    shivering blind you rise,
    all throughout space
    I shall hear your cries,
    be new warmth for you,
    be a new embrace,
    be close to you in a different world
    among things with unborn names.


    Translated into English by David McDuff in "Karin Boye: Complete poems".

    Swedish original



    Copyright © 2005:
    Translation from Swedish into English: David McDuff

    Published with the permission of:
    David McDuff, translation.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.

    For more information, please visit the website of David McDuff and his own pages with the translations.

     
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