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  • This way I prayed

    From Ilya Shambat@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 1 15:41:55 2023
    Alsu Valeeva singing my translation

    This way I prayed: "Slake the dumb thirst
    Of singing with a sweet libation!"
    But to the earthling of the earth
    There can be no liberation.

    Like smoke from sacrifice, that it could not
    Fly Strength- and Glory-ward - alas -
    But only clouded at the feet
    And, as if praying, kissed the grass.

    Thus I, O Lord, before thee bow:
    Will reach the fire of the sky
    My lashes that are closed for now
    And muteness utter and divine?

    By Anna Akhmatova
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat

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