Monotonicity
of Constantine Cavafy
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First version by Filippo Maria Pontani (in Constantine Cavafy, Poems, Mondadori - 1961 )
second version by Margaret Dalmatians and Nelo Risi ( Constantine Cavafy, poems Fifty , Einaudi - 1968).
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follows a monotonous day
a new day, monotonous, unchanging.
the same things will happen, will happen again.
All times are equal, they leave.
.
A month passes and another month accompanies it.
What is strange imagine without calculation:
is yesterday, with the note bore seal.
And tomorrow never seems to be more tomorrow.
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the monotonous day by a monotonous
same day is below. Things will be identical
rifaranno and again -
moments imposed identity and disappear.
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month that passes brings another month.
The things that happen we can guess the
effortlessly are the things of yesterday, annoying.
that ends tomorrow never seems to be more tomorrow.
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