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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

© Dmitri Smirnov, translation. Can be reproduced if non-commercial.

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