"Voices" by C.P. Cavafy

Ideal voices, the beloved voices

of those who have died or of those who are

lost to us as if they were dead.

Sometimes they speak to us in dreams;

sometimes, in thought, the mind hears them.

And with their sounds for a moment return

sounds from our life's first poetry --

like music at night, far off, fading out.

Kimio Muraoka