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    TO YOU

     
    You my despair and my strength,
    you took all the life I controlled,
    and because you demanded everything,
    you gave back a thousandfold.
     
                                             
    Translated into English by David McDuff in "Karin Boye: Complete poems".

    Swedish original


    Copyright © 2005:
    Translation from Swedish into English: David McDuff
    Swedish original: Ulf Boye

    Published with the permission of:
    David McDuff, translation.
    Ulf Boye, copyright of the Swedish original.
    May and Hans Mehlin, Layout.

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