Season 3 · Episode 3
C. P. Cavafy. Ionian.
101 Exiles · Poetry from the Jungle from The Ceylon Press
January 19, 20251m 12s
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Show Notes
Just because we've torn their statues down,
and cast them from their temples,
doesn't for a moment mean the gods are dead.
Land of Ionia, they love you yet,
their spirits still remember you.
When an August morning breaks upon you
a vigour from their lives stabs through your air;
and sometimes an ethereal and youthful form
in swiftest passage, indistinct,
passes up above your hills.
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