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Do you remember runners in
| Do you remember runners in… written by Osip Mandelstam |
| From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In Russian: Вы помните, как бегуны… | Link to further information |
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Do you remember runners in
The outskirts of Verona
Who must unfold the rolls of green
Broadcloth in their own honour?
But only he will leave behind
All others drawn by Dante,
Who — to the disputes so inclined —
Will run away from Canto.
May 1932, Moscow — September 1935, Voronezh
© Dmitri Smirnov, translation. Can be reproduced if non-commercial.