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Deutsch and Yarmolinsky, comps. Modern Russian Poetry. 1921.

Prayer

Anna Akhmatova

GIVE me comfortless seasons of sickness,

Visitations of wrath and of wrong

On my house; Lord, take child and companion,

And destroy the sweet power of song.

Thus I pray at each matins, each vespers,

After these many wearying days,

That the storm-cloud which broods over Russia

May be changed to a nimbus ablaze.