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“THE UNFORESEEN Lord never grant me what I ask for, The unforeseen delights me, what comes down from your fair stars; let life deal out before me all at once the cards against which I must play, I want the shock of going silently along my dark street, feeling that I am tapped upon the shoulder, turning about, and seeing the face of adventure. I do not want to know where and how I shall meet death. Caught unaware, may my soul learn at the turn of a corner that one step back it still lived.” — Conrado Nalé Roxlo
THE UNFORESEEN
Lord never grant me what I ask for,
The unforeseen delights me, what comes down
from your fair stars; let life
deal out before me all at once the cards
against which I must play, I want the shock
of going silently along my dark street,
feeling that I am tapped upon the shoulder,
turning about, and seeing the face of adventure.
I do not want to know where and how
I shall meet death. Caught unaware,
may my soul learn at the turn of a corner
that one step back it still lived.