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A Song on the End of the World

Czesław Miłosz

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1944
Originally in
Originally in Polish
Pages
Pages 1

On the day the world ends, bees circle a clover, fishermen mend their nets and no one believes it is happening yet, and an old man says there will be no other end than this.

On the day the world ends a bee circles a clover, a fisherman mends a glimmering net.
A Song on the End of the World, Czesław Miłosz

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