IV - Not Cecrops kept my bees. My olives bore

by Fernando Pessoa · 1920
Published 01/07/1920

Not Cecrops kept my bees. My olives bore

Oil like the sun. My several herd lowed far.

The breathing traveller rested by my door.

The wet earth smells still; dead my nostrils are.

#fernando pessoa #loss #mortality #nature #rural life #solitude

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