So They Will Come --

From Cavafy:
So They Will Come --

One candle is enough.    Its dim light
is more apt,        more genial
when Love comes,      when its Shadows come.

One candle is enough.        Tonight the room
should not have much light.         Fully inside the dream,
evocative,     in the low light --
inside the dream like this,          I will have visions
so Love will come,      so its Shadows will come.

(1920)
Translated by Aliki Barnstone