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“Don’t pine your heart with fleeting worldly bliss …” by Anna Akhmatova 🇷🇺 (23 Jun 18895 Mar 1966)
Translated from the Russian by Yevgeny Bonver
Don’t pine your heart with fleeting worldly bliss,
Never be used to your sweet wife and house,
Take a last piece from your child’s dear mouth
To give to somebody, who needs.
And be a slave, submissive to a word
Of him, who was your foe—the sworn, rather,
And call a beast of wilderness your brother,
And wait for nothing from the Lord.