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“The Verdict” by Anna Akhmatova 🇷🇺 (23 Jun 1889 – 5 Mar 1966)
Translated from the Russian by Lyudmila Purgina
And the stone word has fallen down
On my breast, being alive, awhile …
No matter, I was ready, almost …
I’ll cope, overcome this time.
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I’m today completly borrowed, rather,
It is need to kill the memory to end.
It is need for my soul—to harden,
It is need—again to live, as well.
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Or … The hot rumble of near summer
Is outside my window as a feast …
I’ve fore-feeled this long ago: coming
Of this bright day and my house—left.