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Alexander Search
THE ACURSED POETTHE ACCURSED POET
 
Here the accursed poet lies, 
Hid far from the pure blue skies; 
Mixed with mud filth he lies 
At the bottom of the stream. 
He dreamed many a strange dream. 
He loved mankind but he did nought 
For mankind's good. Vain was his thought. 
He would be loved and he was not. 
The sun in morn or evening glow 
Can reach him not where deep he lies 
With mud and filth far from the skies. 
He ached to feel, he ached to know. 
He did aspire to what should last 
Beyond the time that did it show. 
Full of the giant city's waste 
The river over him doth flow. 
Dark over him flows the river. 
Down to him no light can go. 
        Damn'd be he for ever!
6-8-1908
Poesia Inglesa. Fernando Pessoa. (Organização e tradução de Luísa Freire. Prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes.) Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1995.
  - 178.
Destinado ao volume «Delirium» e ao conjunto «Documents of Mental Decadence». 
1ª publ. in «Alexandre em ‘Busca’ de Fernando, ou cinco breves notas sobre a poesia de Alexander Search, seguidas de oito poemas seus e respectivas traduções.» Vasco Graça Moura. In Actas do 1º Congresso de Estudos Pessoanos. Porto: Brasília Ed. - Centro de Estudos Pessoanos, 1979.