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

In an Empty House

Ivan Bunin (b. 1870)

FROM the walls the paper’s blue is vanished,

The daguerreotypes, the ikons banished.

Only there the deepened blue appears

Where these hid it, hanging through the years.

From the heart the memory is perished,

Perished all that long ago it cherished!

Those remain, of whom death hides the face,

Leaving their yet unforgotten trace.