On Dora's Birthday
They say that today is Dora's feast
I say, I hope it is a hundred years
Many long and worthy years
More beautiful and truthful than dreams
When you are a famous doctor
And your Amazis is a fellow surgeon
His fingers on the ailment famous
And heals every wound
Beside you a prosperous home
With shady trees
And Ramary and Nefretiti
And on the 24thJuly next year
I will have in London a grandson.
24/7/1972
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On Giddo Bolis's 67th birthday
I completed the seventh year after sixty and
I am starting now on the eighth. On this occasion
I am writing:
Sixty years passed and then eight Sixty,
If I choose, I will not choose to come again