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Here end the works of the sea, the works of love.
Those who will some day live here where we end -
should the blood happen to darken in their memory and
overflow -
let them not forget us, the weak souls among the asphodels,
let them turn the heads of the victims toward the Erebus:

We who know nothing will teach them peace.



Yorgos Seferis
Collected Poems (1924 - 1954)
Yale University Press, 1971
Tradução de Edmund Keeley e Philip Sherrard