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I Know, I Alone

by Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa

I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
With no faith nor law
Nor melody nor thought.
Only I, only I
And none of this can I say
Because feeling is like the sky -
Seen, nothing in it to see.




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