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Слушать(AI)Do Not Accept
Do not accept these rains that come too late.
Better to linger.
Make your
An image of the desert.
Say it's
And do not look to the west.
To surrender.
Try this year
To live alone in the long summer,
Eat your drying bread, refrain From tears.
And do not learn
Experience.
Take as an example my youth,
My return late at night, what has been
In the rain of yesteryear.
It makes no
Now.
See your events as my events.
Everything will be as before:
Abraham will
Be Abram.
Sarah will be Sarai.trans.
Benjamin & Barbara Harshav
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai (3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's grea
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