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JUSTICE
JUSTICE
There was a land, which I suppose,
Where everyone had a crooked nose;
And the crooked nose that everyone had
In no manner did make him sad.
But in that land a man was born
Whose nose more straight and clean was worn;
And the men of that land with a public hate
Killed the man whose nose was straight.
28-7-1907
Poesia Inglesa. Fernando Pessoa. (Organização e tradução de Luísa Freire. Prefácio de Teresa Rita Lopes.) Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 1995.
- 98.Destinado ao volume «Death of God».
1ª publ. in «A Poesia Juvenil de Fernando Pessoa». Georg Rudolf Lind. in Estudos sobre Fernando Pessoa. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1981.