<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546035" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>August</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So generous was august, dropping stars, <br>So unthinking - in the set for property, <br>And dwellers' faces of Rostov-town, <br>Of all the south dwellers - turned to spectacle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm thanking my good fate for fall<br>Of shining stars down on naked shoulders, <br>So similar is downfall of all<br>The lilac inflorescence in the garden old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We watched for long the sunset at that time, <br>Our neighbours were such angry with the keys, <br>When a musician leaned to the old piano<br>With his grey-haired head, deriving music.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were the sounds of one single music.<br>Oh, we could then untune the instrument, <br>But this accord from you to me<br>Was hardly to be torn or ruined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In autumn this the beacons were so bright, <br>So near, close were the shining stars, <br>On boulevards the sailors had good time, <br>And girls in headscarfs had run about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As earlier there are the fall and heat, <br>As earlier the sea shore is invariable, <br>Only from single music two light keys, <br>Two tunes had slipped out forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bella+Akhmadulina">Bella Akhmadulina</a>, translated by Lyudmila Purgina<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=546035" data-title="August de Bella Akhmadulina" data-description="So generous was august, dropping stars, So unthinking - in the set for property, And dwellers' faces of Rostov-town, Of all the south dwellers - turned to spectacle. I'm thanking my good fate for fall Of shining stars down on naked shoulders, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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