In grayish doubt and black despair,
I drafted hymns to the earth and the air,
pretending to joy, although I lacked it.
The age had made lament redundant.
So here’s the question — who can answer it —
Was he a brave man or a hypocrite?
(Czeslaw Milosz)
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