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The Christmas trees are shining

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← The careful and muted sound The Christmas trees are shining… ~ Сусальным золотом горят…
written by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Dmitri Smirnov 		From the semi-dark hall, suddenly →
First printed in the 2nd edition of "Stone" (1916) without the 2nd stanza. From Stone (No. 2). See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov.




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The Christmas trees are shining
With tinsel gold in the forests,
The toy wolves are gazing
With scary eyes in the bushes.

O my prophetic sorrow,
O my silent freedom,
And the ever-laughing crystal
Of the lifeless heavenly vault!


1908

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