On Parting

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    Teasing and tempting and playing
    We loved like children, us both
    But somebody, hiding a smile,
    Set up the ungentle nets -
    And here we are at the harbor,
    Not seeing the wished-for abodes,
    But knowing that I will be yours
    In the heart, without words, until death.

    You told me of all things - so early!
    I guessed them so late! In our hearts
    A wound is eternal, a silent
    Question exists in our eyes,
    The desert on earth is so endless,
    The heaven, so high, has no stars,
    Revealed is the tender secret,
    And frost rules for centuries.

    I will talk to shades! O my dear,
    To forget you I do not have might,
    Your visage can't move under shadow
    Of eyelids gone over my eyes...
    It's darkening... Shutters have closed,
    On all things descending is night...
    I love you, one ghostly-eternal,
    And only you - and always!

    By Marina Tsvetayeva
    Translated from Russian by Ilya Shambat
     

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