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How much I love you! How much you are you! and intimidated by
his own soul:
There is no I now, but she is now in me. No she, but I am in her
fragility. How I fear
For my dream, lest it see a dream that is not she at
The end of this song…
— Mahmoud Darwish, from “The Strangers’ Walk,” Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone?, trans. by Mohammad Shaheen ( Hesperus Press, 2014)
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