The Madman
The Sleep-Walkers
Kahlil Gibra
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| In the town where I was born lived a woman and her daughter, who walked in their sleep. | |||||||||
| One night, while silence enfolded the world, the woman and her daughter, walking, yet asleep, met in their mist-veiled garden. | |||||||||
| And the mother spoke, and she said: "At last, at last, my enemy! You by whom my youth was destroyed -- who have built up your life upon the ruins of mine! Would I could kill you!" | |||||||||
| And the daughter spoke, and she said: "O hateful woman, selfish and old! Who stand between my freer self and me! Who would have my life an echo of your own faded life! Would you were dead!" | |||||||||
| At that moment a cock crew, and both women awoke. The mother said gently, "Is that you, darling?" And the daughter answered gently, "Yes, dear." | |||||||||
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