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<font size="4">George
Seftris</font></B></p>
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is a poet of sighs. I do not know the cadence, the breath of the
original Greek rhythm. But if something of that tone and temper has
been carried over into English, what can be more like a heave of sigh
than –</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Stoop down, if you can, to the dark sea, forgetting</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The sound of a flute played to naked feet</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>That tread your sleep in the other life, the submerged
one.<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup1;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>It is the Virgilian &quot;tears of <I>things&quot; –
lacrimae rerum – the </I>same that moved the muse of the ancient
Roman poet, moves the modern Greek poet.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Seferis' poetry sobs – explicit or muffled –
muttering or murmuring like a refrain – a mantra:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Oh the pity of it all!</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>What else is it, I repeat, but sobbing:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I look for my old house,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The house with the tall windows Darkened by the ivy,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And for that ancient column The landmark of the sailor.
How can I get into this hutch?2</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>.......................................................</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>We are reminded of Jeanne d'Arc, the little maid who</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=2>	<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup1;</FONT>
&quot;Santorin&quot; a – Gymnopaedia, in <I>Poems, </I>by George
Seferis translated from the Greek by Rex Warner (The Bodley Head,
London).</FONT></P>
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&quot;The Return of the Exile&quot;, <I>From Log Book I.</I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page – 192</FONT><BR>
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with great pity <I>(grande piti<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&eacute;</FONT>)
</I>at the sight of the misery _ll around, ravaging her sweet France
like a pest and which drove her in the end to a more than classical
tragic end: Seferis too in the same manner wails</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Great pain had fallen on Greece.!</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Great pain, ruin everywhere... Greece is but a sign, a
symbol of the whole earth, the whole humanity. All around ancient –
sempiternal – ruins...</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>.......walls, streets and houses there stood out,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Fossilised muscles of Cyclopean giants,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Spent power in its anatomy,.. .<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup2;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>As if these were not sufficient, we must add new ones,
fresh and bleeding-and not only material but moral ruins also– the
dreadful results of our inhuman cruelties of war:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>When you look round and you find</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>All about you swathes of feet</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>All about you dead hands</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>All about you darkened eyes;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>When there is no longer any choice</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Of the death you wanted as your own,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Listening to a great cry,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Even to a wolf that yells – &quot;<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup3;</FONT></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Indeed a great cry shoots out of your heart; an
indescribable pity, the upsurge of a divine <I>Piet<FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&agrave;</FONT>,
</I>seizes upon your being</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>and you are another person, you become a poet, a
prophet, a God's warrior. Seferis too became in this way a poet and
something of a prophet.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>His poetry fulfils perfectly the function of the tragic
drama, in the Aristotelian way – purification by evoking terror and
pity – evoking terror, for example in these lines:</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE="Luxi Serif">&sup1;</FONT>
&quot;Helen&quot;, <I>From Log Book III.</I></FONT></P>
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&quot;Engoroi&quot;, <I>Ibid.</I></FONT></P>
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&quot;Santodn&quot;.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page – 193</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">On</SPAN><B> </B>our
left the south wind blows and drives us mad,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>This wind that bares bone, striping off the flesh.&sup1;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or the whole story of diabolical cruelty, the &quot;Three
Mules&quot; , with these tremendous lines:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>...those jolting breasts</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Ripe as pomegranates with murder. . .&sup2;</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>This
is terror, <I>in excelsis. </I>As for pity-his lines on Greece:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Great pain had fallen on Greece.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>So many bodies thrown</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>To jaws of the sea, to jaws of the earth;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>So many souls</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Given up to the mill-stones to be crushed like corn.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And the muddy beds of the rivers sweated with blood. .
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<FONT SIZE=3>O nightingale, nightingale,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>What is god? What is not god? What is in-between?4</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Or
this truly pitiful invocation:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But they have eyes all white without eyelashes</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And their arms are thin as reeds.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup1; &quot;South Wind&quot;, <I>Mythistorema.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup2; &quot;Three Mules&quot;, <I>From Log Book III.</I></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>I quote here the whole passage in Warner's translation:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&quot;The glorious animal of Queen Eleanor.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Against her belly those eperons of gold,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>On her saddle those insatiable loins,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>In her amble tottering those breasts</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Bursting like pomegranates, with murder.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>And when Neapolitans, Genoese and Lombards</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Brought to the royal table on a silver tray</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>The shirt all bloody of the murdered King</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>And made away with his pitiable brother,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>I can imagine how she neighed that night, –</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Something beyond the impassivity of her race –</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2> Like the howling of a dog,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Doubly caparisoned, golden-rump ed, in the stable,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Margarita, that mule.&quot;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup3; &quot;Helen&quot;.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE="font-size: 8pt">4</FONT> Ibid.]</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page – 194</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Lord, not with these. I have known</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The voice of children at dawn</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Running on green hillsides</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Happily coloured, like the bees</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And like the butterflies.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Lord, not with these, their voice</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Cannot even leave their mouths.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium">It</SPAN><B> </B>stays
there glued on yellow teeth.&sup1;</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>But as I have said terror and pity are invoked not for
themselves but for the sake of purification. They serve to wash and
cleanse the troubled sentiments and bring in a purer clearer
atmosphere. When we have passed through those heavy and cruel
feelings, we arrive at a kindlier note. Thus,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Then I heard footsteps upon the pebbles</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I saw no faces. They had gone when I turned my head.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Still that voice heavy upon me like the treading of
cattle</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Stayed in the pulses of the sky and in the sea's roll</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Over upon the shingle again and again:&sup2;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Or this superb picture of the Holy Ascension:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Suddenly I was walking and not walking.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I looked at the flying birds: they had turned to stone.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I looked at the shining sky: there was amazement in the
air</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>I looked at the struggling bodies: they stood still.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And in their midst was a face ascending into the light.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Over the neck the black hair flowed, the eyebrows</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Had the beat of a swallow's wing, the nostrils</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Curved back over the lips, and now the body</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Was rising out of the labour, naked, with the unripe
breasts</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Of a virgin, Leader of Ways;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A dancing but no movement.&sup3;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Indeed, this is beauty cleansed and translucent, a
beauty of the eternal Ionian sky. How limpid and serene, yet
pulsating with a coursing life is this pastoral:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup1; &quot;Postscript&quot;, From Log Book II.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup2; &quot;Salamis in Cyprus&quot;, From Log Book III.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup3; &quot;Engomi&quot;, Ibid.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=2>Page – 195</FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3>In the sky the clouds were ringlets; here and there</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>A trumpet of gold and rose: the approaching dusk.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>In the scanty grass and among the thorns there roamed</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Thin breaths that follow the rain; it must have been
raining</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Over there at the edge of the hills that now took on
colour.&sup1;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Yet was he a Christian in mood or feeling or faith in
the wake of his friend and comrade, kindred in spirit and in manner,
the English poet T. S. Eliot? There was a difference between the two
and Seferis himself gave expression to it. The English poet after all
was an escapist: he escaped, that is to say, in, his consciousness,
into the monastery, the religious or spiritual sedative – opium?
Seferis speaks approvingly of a poet of his country, alike in spirit,
who declared that he was no reformer in this sad world,&sup2; he let
things happen, he was satisfied with being a witness, seeing nature
unroll her inexhaustible beauty. Eliot's was more or less a moral
revulsion whereas the Greek poet was moved rather by an aesthetic
repulsion from the uglinesses of life. It was almost a physical
reaction.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>This reaction led him not to escape the reality but to
detach himself and rise to heights from where he could see a clearer
beauty in earthly things. He says:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Just a little more</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And we shall see the almond trees in blossom</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The marbles shining in the sun</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>The sea, the curling waves.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Just a little more</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Let us rise just a little higher.&sup3;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Nor was he, we may now observe, a pagan, a secular
aesthete. He has himself risen enough to glimpse and name his soul.
It was not perhaps as clear a sight as that of Eliot that had a</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup1; &quot;Engomi&quot;.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup2; This is what exactly Seferis says about this &quot;old
man&quot; of Greece.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&quot;He has no inclination to reform. On the contrary,
he has an obvious loathing for any reformer. He writes as though he
were telling us: if men are such as they are, let them go where they
deserve to be. It is not my business to correct them.&quot; </FONT>
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<FONT SIZE=2>– Poetry (Chicago), October 1964.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">&sup3;&quot;Just a
little more&quot;, Mythistorema</SPAN><I>.</I></FONT><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><FONT SIZE=2>Page
– 196</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>touch of the Upanishadic assurance. Still the sense of
an im&shy;mortal thing unrepressed by mortalities came to him, in an
authentic manner. For such is his final vision:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>And those bodies</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Created from a land unknown to them</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Have their own souls.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Now they assemble tools to change these souls.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>It will not be possible. They will only undo them,</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>If souls can be undone.&sup1;</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Neither wholly an earthbound poet nor clearly an
other&shy;worldly prophet his question still remains:</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>What is god? What is not god? What is in-between?</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=3>Seferis is a being of this in-between world, his
consciousness a golden seam joining two hemispheres.</FONT></P>
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<FONT SIZE=2>&sup1;“Salamis in Cyprus.â€</FONT><BR>
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