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Слушать(AI)All things conspire
All things conspire to hold me from you –even my love,since that would mask you and unname youtill merely woman and man we live.
All men wear arms against the rebel –and they are wise,since the sound world they know and stableis eaten away by lovers’ eyes.
All things conspire to stand between us –even you and I,who still command us, still unjoin us,and drive us forward till we die.
Not till those fiery ghosts are laidshall we be one.
Till then, they whet our double bladeand use the turning world for stone.
Judith Wright
Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 25 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was
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