Pablo Neruda

You will remember that leaping stream 
where sweet aromas rose and trembled, 
and sometimes a bird, wearing water 
and slowness, its winter feathers.

You will remember those gifts from the earth: 
indelible scents, gold clay, 
weeds in the thicket and crazy roots, 
magical thorns like swords.

You'll remember the bouquet you picked, 
shadows and silent water, 
bouquet like a foam-covered stone.

That time was like never, and like always. 
So we go there, where nothing is waiting; 
we find everything waiting there.

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