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Osip Mandelstam

TRISTIA

I have studied the science of parting
The bareheaded complaints of night.
Chew oxen, and lasts Waiting -
Last hour Vigilius urban,
And I fear the rite of the cock of the night,
When raising the road of sorrow cargo
Tearful eyes gazed into the distance
And women weeping mingled with the singing of the Muses.

Who can know the word & quot; parting & quot;
What we have to separation,
What we promise barnyard exclamation,
When the fire is burning in the acropolis,
And at the dawn of some new life
When the passage is lazy ox chews
Why did the rooster, herald a new life,
On the city wall has wings?

And I love the ordinary yarn:
Warp shuttle spindle buzzing.
Look forward, like a feather swan,
Even barefoot Delia flies!
Oh, the life of our meager foundation
Where as poor language of joy!
It was the old days, everything will be repeated again,
And sweet to us is only a moment of recognition.

So be it: a transparent figure
On a pure clay dish is,
As a flattened squirrel pelt,
Leaning over the wax, the girl looks.
Not for us to speculate on the Greek Erebus
Women wax that for men copper.
We just fall in battle lots
And they were given to die wondering.

1918