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OP Although it's not his day yet everywhere, and I don't know why they would celebrate a 112th birthday of Borges I just wish to add a short translated poem of his, as by chance I have his poems in from the library.
TEXAS
Here too. Here as at the other edge
Of the hemisphere, an endless plain
Where a man's cry dies a lonely death.
Here too the Indian, the lasso, the wild horse.
Here too the bird that never shows itself,
That sings for the memory of one evening
Over the rumblings of history;
Here too the mystic alphabet of stars
Leading my pen over the page to names
Not swept aside in the continual
Labyrith of days; San Jacinto
And that other Thermopylae, the Alamo.
Here too the never understood,
Anxious, and brief affair that is life.
(transl. Mark Strand)
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