The Regret of Heraclitus :: J. L. Borges

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I, who have been so many men, have never been
The one in whose embrace Matilde Urbach swooned.

Gaspar Camerarius, in Deliciae poetarum Borussiae, VII, 16

[From Dreamtigers, by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Harold Morland]


			

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