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“The cuckoo I asked …” by
Anna Akhmatova
🇷🇺
(
23 Jun 1889
–
5 Mar 1966
)
Translated from the Russian by Donald Michael Thomas
The cuckoo I asked
How many years I would live… The
Pine tops shivered,
A yellow shaft fell to the grass.
In the fresh forest depths, no sound…
I am going
Home, and the cool wind
Caresses my hot brow.