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Fernando Pessoa

XXI - And ye, that wed to-day, guess these instincts

XXI

And ye, that wed to-day, guess these instincts

Of the concerted group in hints

Yourselves from Nature naturally have,

And your good future brave!

Close lips, nude arms, felt breasts and organ mighty,

Do your joy's night work rightly!

Teach them these things, O day of pomp of heat!

Leave them in thoughts suvh as must make the feat

Of flesh inevitable and natural as

Pissing when wish doth press!

Let them cling, kiss and fit

Together with natural wit,

And let the night, coming, teach them that use

For youth is in abuse!

Let them repeat the link, and pour and pour

Their pleasure till they can no more!

Ay let the night watch over their repeated

Coupling in darkness, till thought's self, o'erheated,

Do fret and trouble, and sleep come on hurt frames,

And, mouthing each one's names,

They in each other's arms dream still of love

And something of it prove!

And, if they wake, teach them to recommence,

For an hour was far hence;

Till their contacted flesh, in heat o'erblent

With joy, sleep sick, while, spent

The stars, the sky pale in the East and shiver

Where light the night doth sever,

And with clamour of joy and life's young din

The warm new day come in.

1913

«Epithalamium». in Poemas Ingleses. Fernando Pessoa. (Edição bilingue, com prefácio, traduções, variantes e notas de Jorge de Sena e traduções também de Adolfo Casais Monteiro e José Blanc de Portugal.) Lisboa: Ática, 1974.

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1ª ed. in English Poems III. Fernando Pessoa. Lisbon: Olisipo, 1921.