Constantine Cavafy

Passage
Those things he shyly imagined as a student are open,
revealed to him now. And he goes around,
he stays up all night and is led astray.
And as it is (for our art) right,
his new, hot blood is enjoyed by lust.
His body is won over
by devious, erotic drunkenness; his young
limbs give in to it.
Thus, a simple young man
becomes the subject of our attention, and for a moment,
he passes through the High World of Poetry
the sensitive young man with his fresh, hot blood.

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