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"There Are the Words..."

by Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

There are the words that couldn't be twice said,
He, who said once, spent out all his senses.
Only two things have never their end -
The heavens' blue and the Creator's mercy.




Last updated January 14, 2019

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