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“On a New Year” by Marina Tsvetaeva 🇷🇺 (8 Oct 189231 Aug 1941)
Translated from the Russian by Ilya Shambat
Let’s meet the stranger with a lamp,
With a quiet, loyal flame.
Only no hidden whisper,
No whisper about him!
We do not need the bright light now,
Dim the lamp till it’s barely lit.
Only no sight of the better,
No sight of it!
May in a careless worry
Year like a day only seem!
Only no thought of eternal,
No thought about him!
We will again become “sisters”,
Nearer to each other sit.
Only no words of the past,
No words about it!