Do you remember runners in

Do you remember runners in… ~ Вы помните, как бегуны… written by Osip Mandelstam

From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. See Poezia.ru.

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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 Translated 4 May 2007, St Albans

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