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YOU ARE MY PUREST CONSOLATION
You are my purest consolation,
you are my firmest protection,
you are the best thing I have,
for nothing hurts like you.
No, nothing hurts like you.
You smart like ice and fire,
you cut like a steel my soul -
you are the best thing I have.
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.