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Constantine P Cavafy - Walls
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With no consideratio n, no pity, no shame,
they have built walls around me, thick and high.
And now I sit here feeling hopeless.
I can`t think of anything else: this fate gnaws my mind -
because I had so much to do outside.
When they were building the walls, how could I not have noticed!
But I never heard the builders, not a sound.
Imperceptibl y they have closed me off from the outside world.

Original Greek:
Τείχη
Χωρίς περίσκεψιν, χωρίς λύπην, χωρίς αιδώ
μεγάλα κ` υψηλά τριγύρω μου έκτισαν τείχη.

Και κάθομαι και απελπίζομαι τώρα εδώ.
Αλλο δεν σκέπτομαι: τον νουν μου τρώγει αυτή η τύχη·

διότι πράγματα πολλά έξω να κάμω είχον.
Α όταν έκτιζαν τα τείχη πώς να μην προσέξω.

Αλλά δεν άκουσα ποτέ κρότον κτιστών ή ήχον.
Ανεπαισθήτως μ` έκλεισαν από τον κόσμον έξω.

Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης (1896)
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