Just another option!

یک دوست ناپدید شده

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-10-27 19:56:06 GMT)
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here is the whole poem at http://www.satataeil.blogsky.com/
Around the corner I have a friend

In this great city that has no end

Yet the days go by and weeks rush on

And before I know it a year is gone

And I never see my old friends face

For life is a swift and terrible race

He knows I like him just as well

As in the days when I rang his bell

And he rang mine but we were younger then

And now we are busy tired men

Tired of playing a foolish game

Tired of trying to make a name

“tomorrow” I say ! I will call on him

But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes

Around the corner , yet miles away

“ here’s a telegram sir “ : jim died today “

And that’s what we get and deserve in the end

Around the corner, a vanished friend

این پایان یک قطعه‌ی ادبی است:
http://garywolff.com/vanished.html
اگر می‌خواهید ادبی ترجمه کنید و به متن هم نزدیک باشد: در همین نزدیکی... دوستی دارم که [از نظر]محو/[از نظر]پنهان/ناپدید شده یا در همین نزدیکی‌هاست دوست سفرکرده
وگرنه معنایی که کمی از متن دورتر است اما طبیعی‌تر است از میان‌رفته می‌باشد.
ضمنا کتابی با این اسم یافتم که می‌توان آن را به همین ترتیب یعنی دوست محو/ناپدید شده معنی کرد:
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Vanished_Friend.html...

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