Farewell, false love, I took you for The woman that I lost last year Forever as I think: I loved her but I will not see Her any more in Germany. O Mi… - Guillaume Apollinaire

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Farewell, false love, I took you for
The woman that I lost last year
Forever as I think:
I loved her but I will not see
Her any more in Germany.
O Milky Way, sister in whiteness
To Canaan's rivers and the bright
Bodies of lovers drowned,
Can we follow toilsomely
Your path to other nebulae?

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About Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent who was hugely influential as a Modernist poet and as a spokesman for the Cubist painters. His original name appears in many forms along the lines of Wilhelm Albert Vladimir Apollinaris Kostrowitzky or Wąż-Kostrowicki.

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Alternative Names: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki Guillaume Apolinaire Guillaume de Kostrowisky Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky Guillaume De Kostrowisky Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky Wilhelm Albert Wladimir Alexander Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky Guillaume Albert Vladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowicky Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris De Kostrowitski) Kostrowicka Kostro Apollinaire, Guillaume Fernand Laviet
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