<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 class="">Sorrow and Joy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorrow and joy, alternating</div><div class="">like water and vapor and ice,</div><div class="">sorrow and joy in the same substance.</div><div class="">We knew.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Love and unlove, two colors</div><div class="">in a single rose, it’s wonderful,</div><div class="">an achievement of the rose’s cultivator</div><div class="">whose name stays with the rose.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many years later we met again</div><div class="">without pain, each of us with our own tranquility.</div><div class="">That was the Garden of Eden</div><div class="">but it was also hell.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Yehuda Amichai</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Translated by Robert Alter)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="font-size: 16px;"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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