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Today's poem is by Oscar Hahn, translated by James Hoggard

Cello

What a sad music
when the cello's bow
wounds the strings of my heart

And you the performer
unaware of the grief of the instrument
only know the beauty of the music



Copyright © 2004 James Hoggard All rights reserved
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