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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova

Pushkin

1943
Who knows what�s to be the famous!
With what price had he bought adeptness,
Legality or highest good
About all � so sly and sagest �
To jest, to be secretly mute,
And call a foot �a little foot�?

Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, July, 2002
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