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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