Walking yesterday in an outlying neighborhood,
I went by the house
I used to go to when I was very young.
There Eros with his magnificent power
Had taken hold of my body.
And yesterday
When I walked along the old road,
The shops, the sidewalks, the stones,
Walls and balconies and windows-
All were suddenly made beautiful by the spell of love:
Nothing ugly was left there.
And as I stood gazing at the door,
Stood there lingering outside the house,
My whole being radiated
The sensual emotion stored up inside me.
