May I submerge,

  Lord God!

  let me submerge

  for ever and ever,

  Amen.

  Endnotes

  1 Translation by Michael Hamburger (Selected Poems of Paul Celan, Anvil Press Poetry, 1995; Penguin Books, 1996)

  2 Man’s greatest crime is to be born (Calderón: Life Is a Dream)

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  FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 2004

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  Originally published in Hungary as Kaddis a meg nem szvületett

  gyermekért by Magveto, Budapest.

  Copyright © 1990 by Imre Kertész. This translation published by

  arrangement with Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL.

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