Black Road Wove Ahead Of Me

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    Black road wove ahead of me,
    Drizzling rain fell,
    To accompany me
    Someone asked for a spell.
    I agreed, but I forgot
    To see him in light of day,
    And then it was strange
    To remember the way.
    Like incense of thousand censers
    Flowed the fog
    And the companion bothered
    The heart with a song.
    Ancient gates I remember
    And the end of the way -
    There the man who went with me
    "Forgive," did say.
    He gave me a copper cross
    Like my brother very own
    And everywhere I hear the sound
    Of the steppe song.
    Here I am at home like home -
    I cry and I am in rue
    Answer to me, my stranger,
    I am looking for you!

    By Anna Akhmatova
    Translated by Ilya Shambat
    https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambat/home/akhmatova
     

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