“No one, in the vast and virgin jungle,” By Fernando Pessoa

No one, in the vast and virgin jungle

Of this unreckoned world, ever sees

The God he knows.

Only what is borne upon the wind, upon the wind is heard.

All we ponder, our loves, our gods,

Pass on, because we do.

(1931)

From “Poems of Fernando Pessoa,” translated and edited by Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown (City Lights: 240 pp., $15.95)