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written by Osip Mandelstam 		Tell me, Desert Draftsman →
From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: И клёна зубчатая лапа.


VIII.


And the toothed paw of the maple
Bathes in the round angles,
We can from the butterflies of flecks
To compose figures on the walls.
5 There are some mosques living,
And I understood this right now:
That perhaps, we — Hagia Sophia
with the countless set of eyes.


November 1933 —
January 1934, Moscow

© Dmitri Smirnov, translation. Can be reproduced if non-commercial.

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