When Thomas brought the news that the house I was born in no longer exists,

Neither the lane nor the park sloping to the river, nothing, I had a dream of return.

Multicolored. Joyous. I was able to fly.

And the trees were even higher than in childhood,

because they had been growing during all the years since they had been cut down.

Czeslaw Milosz

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