<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -96px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Psalm</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s2" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; -webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(30, 73, 125);"><font color="#010101" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Oh, the leaky boundaries of man-made states! </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">How many clouds float past them with impunity; </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">how much desert sand sifts from one land to another;</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">how many mountain pebbles tumble onto foreign soil</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">in provocative hops!</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Need I mention every single bird that flies in the face of frontiers</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">or alights on the roadblock at the border?</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">A humble robin - still, its tail resides abroad</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><span style="font-size: 19px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188);" class="">while its beak stays home. If that weren’t enough, it won't stop bobbing!</span></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Among innumerable insects, I'll single out only the ant </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">between the border guard's left and right boots</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><span style="font-size: 19px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188);" class="">blithely ignoring the questions "Where from?" and “Where to?"</span></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Oh, to register in detail, at a glance, the chaos</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">prevailing on every continent!</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Isn't that a privet on the far bank</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river?</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">And who but the octopus, with impudent long arms,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">would disrupt the sacred bounds of territorial waters?</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">And how can we talk of order overall?</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">when the very placement of the stars</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">leaves out doubting just what shines for whom?</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">Not to speak of the fog's reprehensible drifting!</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">And dust blowing all over the steppes</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">as if they hadn't been partitioned!</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">And the voices coasting on obliging airwaves,</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class="">that conspiratorial squeaking, those indecipherable mutters!</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(22, 101, 188); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><font color="#010101" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -96px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#010101" class=""><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Only what is human can truly be foreign.</span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -96px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);" class="">The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -96px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -96px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Wislawa Szymborska</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 96px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -96px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 19px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> (translated by Anya Kucharev)</span></div></body></html>