poetry · Issue No. 3, March 1956 · p. 3
A Prayer
صلا · ميشال طراد
O Virgin Mary,
give me — long may you live —
three or four minutes of silence in this life,
in the little green dome,
out of the lifetime of five violets
upon her breast — then let me wither and die
يا مريم العدرا ،
عطيني تعيش بالحياة
تْلات أربع دْقايق سْكوت ،
بْالقُبّيّةِ الخُضرا ،
من عمر خمس بْنفسجات
عَ صَدرها ، وإدبَلْ وموتْ
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