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HE VOWS

He swears every now and then to begin a better life. But when night comes with its own counsel, its own compromises and prospects— when night comes with its own power of a body that needs and demands, he goes back, lost, to the same fatal pleasure.

Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard

(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis. Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)