The careful and muted sound

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The careful and muted sound… (1908)
by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Dmitri Smirnov
Osip Mandelstam242034The careful and muted sound…1908Dmitri Smirnov (D. Smirnov-Sadovsky)


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The careful and muted sound
Of a fruit falling from the tree
Amidst the unbroken singing
Of deep silence of the forest…


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