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by: Ilya Shambat - Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:08 UTC

The dusk of autumn -- just like rusted metal
Sings, violates and eats through flesh
That falls like all temptation and Cresus's capital
Before the razor blade of your anguish.

My God! Like by a dancing snake I'm falling
Exhausted, and before her I am meek;
My soul's salvation I am not extolling
The reason or the muse I do not seek.

Enough untying with my wits or essence
A finely woven yarn of smart replies
There are no words for laments and confessions,
Heavy and shallow is my cup of lies.

Why do you breathe? On stones you will be dancing,
Sick python you, then curling in a ball;
Next moment swing and twist as if romancing,
And instantly in expiration fall.

And uselessly the day of execution,
Agape at all the sound and all the sight,
I listen as has fearlessly come completion,
The screech of metal and the wind's dark might!

By Osip Mandelshtam
Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat

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by: Zod - Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:40 UTC

On Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 8:08:37 PM UTC-4, Ilya Shambat wrote:
>
> The dusk of autumn -- just like rusted metal
> Sings, violates and eats through flesh
> That falls like all temptation and Cresus's capital
> Before the razor blade of your anguish.
>
> My God! Like by a dancing snake I'm falling
> Exhausted, and before her I am meek;
> My soul's salvation I am not extolling
> The reason or the muse I do not seek.
>
> Enough untying with my wits or essence
> A finely woven yarn of smart replies
> There are no words for laments and confessions,
> Heavy and shallow is my cup of lies.
>
> Why do you breathe? On stones you will be dancing,
> Sick python you, then curling in a ball;
> Next moment swing and twist as if romancing,
> And instantly in expiration fall.
>
> And uselessly the day of execution,
> Agape at all the sound and all the sight,
> I listen as has fearlessly come completion,
> The screech of metal and the wind's dark might!
>
> By Osip Mandelshtam
> Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
> https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat

Lovely verses from Osip Mandelshtam