# Gift

By [Untitled](https://paragraph.com/@0x51d2f22039736090e2590336a1830803dc586501) · 2023-11-28

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**by Czeslaw Milosz**

_A day so happy._

_Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden._

_Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers._

_There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess._

_I knew no one worth my envying him._

_Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot._

_To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me._

_In my body I felt no pain._

_When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails._

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