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Osip Mandelstam
Tatyana Tolstaya

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The age is rocking the wave
with human grief
to a golden beat, and an adder
is breathing in time with it in the grass.


Osip Mandelstam
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In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Tatyana Tolstaya
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