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"O heavens, heavens..."

by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam

O heavens, heavens, see you in my dreams!
It is impossible -- you had become so blind,
And day was burned as if a page -- to rims:
Some smoke and ashes, one could later find.




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