You Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Gone -- Sunday Akhmatova Blogging

Here's a translation of Akhmatova that seems to work pretty well. Perhaps because the concept she discusses is so universal.


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We thought we were beggars, we thought we had nothing at all
But then when we started to lose one thing after another,
Each day became
A memorial day -
And then we made songs
Of great divine generosity
And of our former riches.