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

“Night Was Done”

Mikhail Kuzmin (b. 1877)

NIGHT was done. We rose and after

Washing, dressing,—kissed with laughter,—

After all the sweet night knows.

Lilac breakfast cups were clinking

While we sat like brothers drinking

Tea,—and kept our dominoes.

And our dominoes smiled greeting,

And our eyes avoided meeting

With our dumb lips’ secrecy.

“Faust” we sang, we played, denying

Night’s strange memories, strangely dying,

As though night’s twain were not we.