Farewell - Kahlil Gibran, <The Prophet>

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.
It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
You have sung to me in my aloneness,

and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.

But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over,

and it is no longer dawn.
The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day,

and we must part.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,

we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

Kahlil Gibran, <The Prophet>

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칼릴 지브란의 <예언자> 중 마지막 장, 알 무스타파가 오르팔레세 시를 떠나기 직전 마지막으로 읊은 구절이다.

개인적으로 <예언자> 전체를 통틀어 가장 감동적인 구절이었다.