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written by Osip Mandelstam 		And Schubert on the water →
From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Когда, уничтожив набросок.


VI.


When, after destroying the sketches,
You thoroughly hold in your mind
A period with no dull footnotes
United in its inner shade, —
5And it just on its own power
Is floating with eyes snapped shut, —
It relates to the paper exactly
Like cupola to the empty skies.


January 1933, Moscow

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

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