'I asked the cuckoo'

by Anna Akhmatova

  


I asked the cuckoo:

  How many years will I live? …

  The tips of the pine-trees quivered,

  A yellow ray shone on the grass.

  Yet no sound in the cool grove…

  Now I am going home,

  And a refreshing breeze

  Kisses my burning brow.


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