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    NOW I KNOW

     
    Now I know how much you hid and kept silent about.
    That was your shell.
    But why have you hidden yourself so well from me?
    The thought grinds still.
    I know. I remember: one single case,
    where judgement was mine to wield -
    and then your inner world's enchanted land
    was forever concealed.
    As long as our love has one chance left,
    if even only one,
    that long will our love be a closed hand -
    and to us justice be done.


    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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