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“The Rain Has Flown” by Vladimir Nabokov 🇷🇺🇺🇸 (22 Apr 18992 Jul 1977)
Translated from the Russian by the author
The rain has flown and burnt up in flight.
I tread the red sand of a path.
Golden orioles whistle, the rowan is in bloom,
the catkins on sallows are white.
The air is refreshing, humid and sweet.
How good the caprifole smells!
Downward a leaf inclines its tip
and drops from its tip a pearl.