7 - I feel pale and I shiver
Fernando Pessoa
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Ano: 601
I feel pale and I shiver.
What power of the moonlight
Tremulous under the river
Thus pains me with delight?
What spell told by the moon
Unlooses all my soul?
O speak to me! I swoon!
I fade from life's control!
I am a far spirit, e'en
In the felt place of me.
O river too serene
For my tranquillity!
O ache somehow of living!
O sorrow for something!
O moon‑pain the sense‑giving
That I am vainly king
In some spell‑bound realm mute,
In a lunar land lone!
O ache as of a dying flute
When we would have't play on!
What power of the moonlight
Tremulous under the river
Thus pains me with delight?
What spell told by the moon
Unlooses all my soul?
O speak to me! I swoon!
I fade from life's control!
I am a far spirit, e'en
In the felt place of me.
O river too serene
For my tranquillity!
O ache somehow of living!
O sorrow for something!
O moon‑pain the sense‑giving
That I am vainly king
In some spell‑bound realm mute,
In a lunar land lone!
O ache as of a dying flute
When we would have't play on!
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