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  • 27-11-2010 10:51PM
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    I recall a line from a Borges poem but I have forgotten the title.

    The line is 'the snow is falling or it fell' and I believe its the first line. Does anyone happen to know this poem?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭E.T.


    Can't find any with snow in the first line, but came across this one here:
    http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Spanish/Borges.htm

    New England 1967

    The forms in my dreams have changed;
    now there are red houses side by side
    and the delicate bronze of the leaves
    and chaste winter and pious wood.
    As on the seventh day, the world
    is good. In the twilight there persists
    what’s almost non-existent, bold, sad,
    an ancient murmur of Bibles, war.
    Soon (they say) the first snow will fall
    America waits for me on every street,
    but I feel in the decline of evening
    today so long, and yesterday so brief.
    Buenos Aires, I go journeying
    your streets, without time or reason.


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