Speaking In Tongues
Scribbling In Voices

ANNA AKHMATOVA

Translated by Maya Jouravel

Translation, Maya Jouravel, 1994-1998



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Here Pushkin's driven sentence had begun,
And ended Lermontov's in fatal sentence,
The mountain grass has very gentle fragrance,
And only once I managed to discern,
Where by the lake under dense shade of a chinara,
In that pre-evening and ferocious trice
The glaring of insatiable dark eyes
Of the immortal lover of Tamara.

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