<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473356" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a sleigh, padded with straw</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On a sleigh, padded with straw,<br>Barely covered by the fateful mat,<br>From the Vorobevy hills to the familiar chapel<br>We rode through enormous Moscow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But in Uglich, the children play mumbletypeg,<br>And it smells of bread left in the oven.<br>They carry me along the streets without my hat;<br>In the oratory three candles burn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Not three burning candles -- three meetings.<br>One consecrated by God Himself.<br>A fourth would never be, but Rome is far --<br>And He was never fond of Rome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The sled dashed through black ruts,<br>People were returning from the promenade.<br>Wretched peasants with their angry wives<br>Cracked seeds by the gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The damp distance blackened with flocks of birds,<br>The bound hands swelled. They carry the Carevich,<br>The body grows terribly numb,<br>They set fire to the reddened straw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Osip+Emilevich+Mandelstam">Osip Emilevich Mandelstam</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473356" data-title="On a sleigh, padded with straw de Osip Emilevich Mandelstam" data-description="On a sleigh, padded with straw, Barely covered by the fateful mat, From the Vorobevy hills to the familiar chapel We rode through enormous Moscow. But in Uglich, the children play mumbletypeg, And it smells of bread left in the oven. They carry ..."></div> </div> </div>

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