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Sunday, 4 January 2026

Quietly my wife - Toivo Lyy

Quietly my wife
breaths beside me,
her dear, beautiful head
across my heart.

Sometimes the heart may carry
a burden kind and gentle.

Toivo Lyy (1898 - 1976) Finland
Translated by Borje Vahamaki (?)
Source: Love poems from around the world, The Editors, Hippocrene Books, 2000

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