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With more than each other with--

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in England, in
Germany many people

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ask me, what you like in poetry.

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With all of them
as my children--

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Which poem do you
like best, basically.

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But please put it here,
"A meeting at an air--"

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Airport.

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"--airport."

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It's always insisted
that I remember the poem.

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He's always said that this
is one of his favorite poems.

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And in fact, when we
were putting together

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his first book of poems,
we had made a selection.

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And I asked him
was there anything

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we left out that was really
important that in some way

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spoke for him in
an essential way?

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He said this-- this poem.

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This is-- Eric, I think this
is a love poem, but different,

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like our other
poems are different.

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But I insist this
is a different one.

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سألتني وكنّا من ضحى النبع مرة عائدين

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ماذا تكره
ومن تحب؟

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أجبتك من خلف أهداب الفجاءة
ودمي يسرع يسرع

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كظل سحابة الزرزور

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أكره الرحيل
أحب النبع والدرب

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وأعبد الضحى
فضحكتِ

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فأزهر لوز
وشدت في الأيك أسراب العنادل

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سؤال عمره الآن عقود أربعة

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يا للجواب من السؤال

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وسؤال عمره عمر رحيلك

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يا للسؤال من الجواب

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واليوم
يا للمحال!

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ها نحن في مطار محايد

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على شفا صدفة نلتقي

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ويحي
نلتقي

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وها أنت تعيدين السؤال

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يا للمحال من المحال

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عرفتك ولم تعرفيني

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أهذا أنت؟
ولم تصدقي

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وفجأة
انفجرت تسألين

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إن كنت أنت أنت
فمن تكره ومن تحب؟

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فأجبتك ودمي يغادر الشرفة

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يسرع ويسرع
كسحابة الزرور

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أكره الرحيل
أحب النبع والدرب وأعبد الضحى

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فبكيتِ
فأطرقت ورود

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وتعثرت بحرير حرقتها حمائم


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Can people still
hear in the back?

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Is it so-so?

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It's OK?

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Yeah, OK.

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"Meeting in an airport."

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You asked me once
on our way back

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from the mid-morning trip to
the spring: "What do you hate,

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and who do you love?"

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And I answered from behind
the eyelashes of my surprise,

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my blood rushing like the shadow
cast by a cloud of starlings:

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"I hate departure...

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I love this spring and
the path to the spring,

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and I worship the middle
hours of morning."

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And you laughed...

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In the almond tree
blossomed and the thicket

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grew loud with nightingales.

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...

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A question now four
decades old: I salute that

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question's answer; and an
answer is old is your departure;

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I salute that
answer's question...

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And today, it's
preposterous, here we

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are at a friendly airport
by the slimmest of chances,

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and we meet.

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Ah, Lord!

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we meet.

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And here you are asking--

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again, it's absolutely
preposterous--

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I recognized you but
you didn't recognize me.

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"Is it you?!"

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But you wouldn't believe it.

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And suddenly you burst out and
asked: "If you're really you,

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what do you hate and
who do you love?!"

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And I answered-- my
blood fleeing the hall,

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rushing in me like the shadow
cast by a cloud of starlings:

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"I hate departure, and
I love this spring,

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and the past spring,
and I worship

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the middle hours of morning."

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And you wept, and flowers
bowed their heads,

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and doves in the silk of
their sorrow stumbled.

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