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Help me, The Lord, to live through the night
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| Help me, The Lord, to live through the night… written by Osip Mandelstam |
| From Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. Translated from Russian by Dmitri Smirnov (D. Smirnov-Sadovsky). . In Russian: Помоги, Господь, эту ночь прожить. | Link to further information |
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Help me, The Lord, to live through the night.
I am afraid for life, for your slave…
Living in Saint Petersburg is like sleeping in a coffin.
January 1931
© Dmitri Smirnov, Translation. Can be reproduced if non commercial.