From the dimly lit hall
you slipped out in a light shawl.
The servants slept on,
we disturbed no one…
by Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам (Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam. His surname is commonly latinised as Mandelstam)
(1908)
translated by James Greene
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