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The immortelle is paper pink,
Clouds are stuck in a blue scrapbook,
The leaves are still bare and pale
On the park's single oak.
It’s twilight here till gone twelve.
How good it is, so secluded and small.
On the gentlest matters, the endless miracles
The Lord's birds talk.
I am happy. Yet best of all
For me is a sloping forest path,
A simple bridge, a crooked one
And that my wait is almost done.
Clouds are stuck in a blue scrapbook,
The leaves are still bare and pale
On the park's single oak.
It’s twilight here till gone twelve.
How good it is, so secluded and small.
On the gentlest matters, the endless miracles
The Lord's birds talk.
I am happy. Yet best of all
For me is a sloping forest path,
A simple bridge, a crooked one
And that my wait is almost done.
poetrymagazines notes: Anna Akhmatova's Russian texts copyright © 2005 by Margarita Novgorodova. The rights are granted by FTM Agency, Ltd., Russia
Translated by Sasha Dugdale
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