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Boris Pasternak - Spring (Fragment 3)
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Is it only dirt you notice? 
Does the thaw not catch your glance? 
As a dapple-grey fine stallion 
Does it not through ditches dance? 

Is it only birds that chatter 
In the blueness of the skies, 
Sipping through the straws of sunrays 
Lemon liturgies on ice? 

Only look, and you will see it: 
From the rooftops to the ground 
Moscow, all day long, like Kitezh 
Lies, in light-blue water drowned. 

Why are all the roofs transparent 
And the colours crystal-bright? 
Bricks like rushes gently swaying, 
Mornings rush into the night. 

Like a bog the town is swampy 
And the scabs of snow are rare.
 February, like saturated 
Cottonwool in spirits, flares. 

This white flame wears out the garrets, 
And the air, in the oblique 
Interplace of twigs and birds, is 
Naked, weightless and unique. 

In such days the crowds of people 
Knock you down; you are unknown, 
Nameless; and your girl is with them, 
But you, too, are not alone.
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