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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Sunday Akhmatova Blogging


My Way (1940)

One goes in straightforward ways,
One in a circle roams:
One waits for a girl of his long gone days,
Or for returning home.
But I do go -- and woe is there --
By a way nor straight, nor broad,
But into never and nowhere,
Like trains -- off the railroad.

1 comment:

shrimplate said...

She never fails.