The Light Moscow Rain

The Light Moscow Rain written by Osip Mandelstam

From "The Poems 1921-1925". Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov. In English: Московский дождик (Мандельштам)

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The Light Moscow Rain

It gives away so scantily
Its weak sparrow chill –
A little to us, a little to the trees,
A little to the cherries on a tray.

And in the darkness the boiling grows –
A light fuss of tea leaves,
Like an airy ant-hill
Feasting in the dark verdures.

The vineyard of the fresh drops
Is stirring in the meadow:
As if the nest of the cold
Was appeared in web-footed Moscow.

1922

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