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Öğleden Sonra
From Göl Saatleri (1921). Original Turkish text.
İçer gümüş kıyılardan remîde âhûlar
Ve onların sesi eyler bütün sükûtu harâb,
Eder bu daveti, durgun sulardan, istiğrâb
Gürültüsüz ve uzak mâî diğer âhûlar...
Codex Note
The title means 'Afternoon'. One of four short poems on the hours of the day printed together in the magazine Servet-i Fünûn (no. 1054, 4 August 1911) and later collected in Göl Saatleri. Startled gazelles drink at silver shores, and other gazelles, blue, silent and far away in the still water, find their call strange.
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Haşim, Ahmet. “Öğleden Sonra.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ahmet-hasim/4/.
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