“Alternate translation by Donald D. Walsh:If you ask me where I have beenI must say "It so happens."I must speak of the ground darkened by stones,of the river that enduring is destroyed:I know only the things that the birds lose,the sea left behind, or my sister weeping.Why so many regions, why does a dayjoin a day? Why does a black nightgather in the mouth? Why dead people?”

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