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← [[ ]] Ears stretch sensitive sails… ~ Слух чуткий парус напрягает…
written by Osip Mandelstam 		[[ ]] →
PD (1)
[1]. From Stone. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by A. S. Kline. The source: www.tonykline.co.uk.



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Ears stretch sensitive sails,
dilated eyes lose fire,
over the silence swims
the night-birds’ soundless choir.

I’m poor as things natural,
as simple as the sky,
my freedom spectral
as the night-birds’ cry.

 I see the moon, un-breathing,
a sky dead as canvas:
your world, strange and sickening,
I welcome, Emptiness!


1910, 1922(?)

Notes

  1. ↑ First printed in "Severnye zapiski", 1913 with different 1st stanza. In its full version in O. Mandelstam: Stikhotvorenia, L.—M., GIZ, 1928.

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