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Overcoming the firmness of nature

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The tiny appendage of the sixth sense Octets (V) ~ Overcoming the firmness of nature…
written by Osip Mandelstam
When, after destroying the sketches
From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Преодолев затверженность природы...



V.


Overcoming the firmness of nature
The hard-blue eye pierces into its law,
In the earth's crust the rock plays the fool,
And the groans tear from the breast like the ore.
5 And the weak dwarfish shoot spreads out,
Like the road bent into the horn, —
To comprehend the inner excess of space
That is the oath of the petal and cupola.


January 1934, Moscow


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