Osip Mandelstam About liberty unheard-of

  ОСИП МАНДЕЛЬШТАМ
 ‘О СВОБОДЕ НЕБЫВАЛОЙ’
  OSIP MANDELSTAM
 ‘ABOUT LIBERTY UNHEARD-OF’

About liberty unheard-of
I’m to think by flame of torch,
Let you stay with me in essence, -
Whimpered constancy at first.

Only I do put my crown
Upon you, my dearest child,
Letting you submit to freedom –
Genuine source of love and light!

- And the freedom, as if law,
Does engage me in a sense
And this lightest kind of crown
Shan’t I take off ever since.

- Should forsaken in the space-time
And the ones condemned to die
Feel contrite of sweet-attachment
To consistency of night?


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