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AND I LOUNGED AND LAY ON THEIR BEDS by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY

First Line: WHEN I WENT TO THAT HOUSE OF PLEASURE
Last Line: THAN FOR ME TO FIND PLEASURE IN THE COMMONPLACE ROOMS

Poem Sources:

POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM. VOLUME 1. FROM FIN-DE-SIECLE TO NEGRITUDE.
  ROTHENBERG, JEROME, AND JORIS, PIERRE (EDS.)
  (1995)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD (TRS.)
  CAVAFY, C. P.
  (1992)
 



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