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    YOU CALL FOR PEOPLE

    You call for people of great stature. What gives great stature
    to a person? To become nothing and forget oneself for that which is
    greater than she.
    The unrepentant call out. They themselves would grow 
    into giants the moment they bowed their knees in the shadow of
    the immense things.
    But raise your voices until the gods awake, until new gods
    rise up and answer! When no one asks for people any more, then your
    people will be here.


    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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