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The careful and muted sound… ~ Звук осторожный и глухой written by Osip Mandelstam, translated by A. S. Kline

The Christmas trees are shining →

From Stone (No. 1)[1]. See also Poems. Translated from Russian.

* * * The sound, muffled, cautious: of tree’s fruit, falling, among endless singing silent forest depths… 1908

Notes

1. ↑ First printed in the 2nd edition of "Stone" (1916).

Other translations

• The careful and muted sound Translated by Dmitri Smirnov

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