Constantine P Cavafy

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Desires

Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown old and they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum, with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet -- that is how desires look that have passed without fultillment; without one of them having achieved a night of sensual delight, or a moonlit morn.