Ахматова Летний сад - Akhmatova Summer Garden

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I’d like to see roses and this garden of fancy,
Which fence is the nicest of all the world's fences,

Where statues remember, how young I had been,
I do remember them in Neva’s cool stream.

In fresh hush among just the royal lime trees
I can still hear ship-masts' creaks in seas.

The swan's swim through ages, I've never forgotten,
When it admires its twin on the water.

Hundreds of thousands of steps calmly doze.
Steps of foes and friends, friends and foes.

The marching of shadows is non-stop and callous,
From the granite vase to the door of the palace.

And there my white nights whisper above
Of someone's high and mysterious love.

And everything sparkles with jasper and pearl,
The light source is hidden, like secret at all.

May 27-28, 2024