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“The Polar Deer” by Marina Tsvetaeva 🇷🇺 (8 Oct 189231 Aug 1941)
Translated from the Russian by Lyudmila Purgina
I love you all my life and every day.
I feel you as the huge dark shade,
As hovel’s smoke in the polar land.
I love you all my life and every hour.
But that’s of no need—your lips, eye’s power.
All’s just begun and ended—yourself out.
I just remember: soniferous bow,
The collar large and fair clear snow,
The stars, that stuck the horns all over …
And from the horns half-heaven—shade,
And hovel’s smoke in the polar land.
You’re—polar deer!—I’ve catched the shape.