May God Forgive You

"May God forgive you."

The boy wanted to fall upon his father's feet and kiss them, but death gave him no respite... The shot rang out and lodged in the child's heart, and he fell, writhing and thrashing in his gushing blood, moaning: "Ah — ah — ah, father!"

And Matteo turned back without casting a single glance at the boy's lifeless body. The mother — kneeling at prayer before the statue of the Virgin — heard the report of the gunshot, and her very liver split with grief and anguish, her heart torn with alarm for her son, when it appeared to her that she had lost him forever; then she rushed out in the madness

of a bereaved mother, calamity grinding her without mercy. A few steps from the house she saw the father returning with bowed head, dazed, cares dividing him and sorrows contending over him, now that the sentence had been carried out; and she rushed at him crying: "My son! What — what have you done?" And the man answered in a faint, weak voice, with the moans of a man struck to the heart: "Justice — justice, my dear Giuseppa!" She said: "And where is he?" He said: "There — there on the slope. I shall bury him. He is dead — I shall pray my Lord's forgiveness for him!"

Translated by: Kamil Mahmoud Habib

Kamil Mahmoud Habib

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Slowly, slowly! From behind the clouds,
the moon looks out in grandeur and pride!
Slowly, slowly, toward the heart of the sky,
the moon glides in beauty and majesty!
But I...
Quickly, quickly, down from the hills I plunge toward the deep valley — and stand transfixed!!
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...This last letter of mine to you has not one word of pain in it...
Because I meant it to be all joy!
But... read between the lines, and you will see how many things came to my mind that I did not say!
I imagined that everything between us had become a thing forgotten!
And that all my feeling for you had turned to mirage...
But read between the lines. Do you know how I long for you, my beloved, and how lost I am without you?
Your Deserted House
Your Deserted House
Yesterday I wandered through your little deserted house! And I saw your quiet, darkened room, where the memory still lives, strong and sacred, and a ray of light shining on the bed asleep in the darkness. But you — you are not asleep in the lighted bed!!
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