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The careful and muted sound

← Stone

The careful and muted sound… ~ Звук осторожный и глухой
written by Osip Mandelstam

PD ⁽¹⁾

^[1]. From Stone (No. 1). See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov.

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The careful and muted sound
Of a fruit falling from the tree
Amidst the unbroken singing
Of deep silence of the forest…

1908

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

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