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“The twenty-first. Night. Monday …” by Anna Akhmatova 🇷🇺 (23 Jun 1889 – 5 Mar 1966)
Translated from the Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer
The twenty-first. Night. Monday.
The outlines of the capital are in mist.
Some idler invented the idea
That there’s something in the world called love.
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And from laziness or boredom,
Everyone believed it and here is how they live:
They anticipate meetings, they fear partings
And they sing the songs of love.
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But the secret will be revealed to the others,
And a hush will fall on them all …
I stumbled on it by accident
And since then have been somehow unwell.