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The Last Contention
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44 The Last Contention Your love demands greater justice than before It showered in the morning which saddens you This sight had the right to be immortalized The memory of a besieged heart did not trouble you opening this window on the verdant expanse Over a nameless bridge you told yourself in a firm voice I shall keep alone You did not consider love a startling fortune My luck was not made in a shipyard yet I forded the lengths of sea kept mysteriously alive and relentlessly wrote poetry I profess to have all the faults of a lover and the last contention ...